Children are born with a desire to learn – everything!
Children have very big dreams!
Good math opens doors to a young person’s future!
A child’s dreams can come true!
MathCreativity.com offers bright ideas and
The life of Bruce Silton, artist and designer, changed dramatically in March of 2000, when, at the age of 57, he left the familiar world of grown-ups to tutor children at a top-notch private school in sunny Clearwater, Florida. In the 17 years since that fateful moment, he has delivered approximately 17,000 tutoring sessions to students from kindergarten through twelfth grade.
“And that”, he says, “is a lot of quality time spent with young people. Of those students who find their way to my office, most are struggling with some aspect of reading, writing, math, history, geography or science – and occasionally all the above subjects at once.
“BUT THE GREATEST NUMBER — PERHAPS 60-70% — NEED HELP WITH MATHEMATICS.
“Tutoring children and young people in the science of mathematics and sharing with them the pleasures I have found in the world of math is the most rewarding and challenging adventure of my life.
“With the knowledge gained from this immense quantity and variety of one-on one teaching, compelled by the absolute necessity to turn their confusions into clear-eyed certainty, I have worked out how to teach math effectively.
“My intention in MathCreativity.com is to offer precise and detailed ideas, plans and methods that, when used correctly, will raise the quality of math education planetwide.”
In MathCreativity.com, you will find the following articles:
“LIVING WITH MATH” is a comprehensive program to provide students with an abundance of high-quality, real-life applications for every major math topic learned from first through twelfth grades.
“LITERACY, MATHEMATICS and CREATIVITY” is an in-depth description of “literacy” and “math literacy” as they apply to the real world of the twenty-first century. This essay includes a statement of a new and desirable goal: “Creative Math Literacy”, with an innovative teaching method to help students achieve that goal.
“THE FUTURE OF NUMBERS” is a look at the mathematical universe that exists somewhere off the number line.
“THE OTHER SIDE OF MATH” is a six-step program for teachers and students to enhance a student’s inborn creativity in mathematics.
“MATHART SERIES ONE” consists of original, expressive art that brings to life the idea and emotion of creativity in the realm of mathematics.
“MATHART SERIES TWO” is Educational MathArt. It has the purpose of communicating the ideas and language of math as a subject to be studied, learned and used. But, since it is also art, the images are not only useful and practical but visually interesting.
“WELCOME TO BLASTER SCHOOL” is a short story that introduces my science-fiction heroine, Missie May Trofim, a 6-year-old, curly-blond, algebra whiz, poet and warrior — and future Empress of the 75,000 planets and stars of the Voluntari Federation.
“MATHWORDS” contains accurate, illustrated definitions of the most important math words that are needed to keep students really learning and using math in their lives.