How to Make a Gift for Your Math Teacher

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Make puzzles for your classroom. See the section on how to make a "One Golf Tee Puzzle."
Step 2

Cut out mind-teasing puzzles from construction paper. See the section on how to make a paper puzzle.
Step 3

Make-up silly written math problems. Begin by making up a math problem and working out the answer. Now, make up a story using the numbers from your math problem.
Step 4

Design a scavenger hunt using your math book and things in your classroom. Make the hunt where students can remain at their desks and look for things around them - on the wall, floor, ceiling, or other students.
Step 5

Personalize a ruler with paint.
Step 6

Decorate a can with numbers to hold the teacher's pencils.

Step 1

Use a piece of Styrofoam about 5 inches by 5 inches.
Step 2

Find the center of Styrofoam piece and mark it with a pen.
Step 3

Make a mark every 5/8 inch from the center going in all four directions. You will make three marks each direction from the center. You should have dots that look like "+."
Step 4

Measure 5/8 inch and mark on each side of each dot. This will now give you a "+" with rows of three dots - and a total of 33 dots all together.
Step 5

Poke a golf tee firmly into each dot.
Step 6

Remove the tees, and color each hole with a black marker.
Step 7

Place a golf tee in each hole except the center hole.
Step 8

Solve the puzzle by jumping one tee over another in any direction until you only have one tee left on the board.

Step 1

Cut an 8-inch x 8-inch piece of paper.
Step 2

Measure from the bottom of the paper up 3 inches on both sides and make a mark with a pencil.
Step 3

Use a ruler to make a straight line between the marks.
Step 4

Cut along the line. Now you have one piece of paper 8 inches x 5 inches and one piece of paper 8 inches x 3 inches.
Step 5

Lay your ruler on the smaller piece of paper from corner to corner and mark the diagonal with a pencil.
Step 6

Cut on the diagonal line, and label one piece C and the other piece D.
Step 7

Measure 3 inches from the left side on the bottom of the larger piece of paper and mark with a pencil.
Step 8

Measure 5 inches from the same side, but this time at the top of the paper with a pencil. The marks will be at a diagonal from each other.
Step 9

Place your ruler on the pencil marks and draw a diagonal line between the marks.
Step 10

Cut on the diagonal line and label one piece A and the other B.
Step 11

Place C and D together on the diagonal and A and B together on the diagonal and place pieces together to make an 8-inch x 8-inch square, which equals 64.
Step 12

Place C and A together to form a triangle and D and B together and place the triangles together to make a 5-inch x 13-inch rectangle, which equals 65.

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