J2 Content - Perspectives » Comics http://perspectives.j2content.com A varied collection of thoughts on education and parenting Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:31:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Math Movie Pictograms http://perspectives.j2content.com/math-movie-pictograms/355 http://perspectives.j2content.com/math-movie-pictograms/355#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:17:07 +0000 Staff http://perspectives.j2content.com/?p=355 read more]]> Movie Math Quiz 1 from Spikedmath.com

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This image is one of three quizzes asking you to figure out movie titles expressed as math pictograms among the comics at spikedmath.com.

The other quizzes can be accessed by clicking these links: Quiz 2 Quiz 3.

If you aren’t already familiar with the site, Spikedmath.com hosts regularly updated math themed comics and is well worth your time exploring.

While these quizzes or and the math comics may not be grade-level appropriate, you should be able to find at least a few to use as examples of the clever way mathematics is used and to inspire your students/children to develop similar projects: creating their own math-themed comics or pictograms of song titles, TV shows, common phrases.

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