#86: Presidents Day Projects: Connecting Math to History 🇺🇸📊

Presidents’ Day isn’t just a time to reflect on leadership—it’s a perfect opportunity to connect math to history and civic engagement! In this episode, we’re diving into cross-curricular connections that bring real-world math into your classroom.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
✔️ Why integrating math with history deepens student understanding.
✔️ How my Election Project engages students with data analysis, probability, and civic themes.
✔️ Simple Presidents’ Day activities that tie math to real-world events—even if you don’t grab the full project!

💡 Key Takeaway: Cross-curricular lessons, like those tied to elections and Presidents’ Day, engage students by showing them how math connects to the real world.

Resources Mentioned:
➡️ Election Project on TpT

✨ Don’t miss your chance to bring Presidents’ Day to life in your math classroom!

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Kristen Moore, classroom teacher and instructional coach at Moore Than Just X, empowers modern secondary math teachers to transform the student experience with the strategies and the confidence to implement project-based learning, mastery-based assessment, and student engagement strategies in their classrooms.

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