MARK WAHL

Math Teaching
Resources & Books

Purchase from a select list of four books of potent teaching strategies and activities (Gr 2-9). (Get discounts, sample pages and downloads too.)

Books to Buy:

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Buy Math for Humans by Mark Wahl
Mathematical Mystery Tour by Wahl
Writing in Math Class by Burns
Check out Math Nuggets by Mark Wahl
Try the Sample Math Activities

Contact Info

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A Magic Square Activity

Let Your Students Learn and Enjoy Math
Through the Multiple Intelligences!

If you are searching for any of the following topics:

Just click the above and you’ll get to a power-packed reference that will take you to a new world of math teaching.

AT ANY TIME YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN to the starting line of the first page of the sample multi-intelligence lesson on magic squares. This is taken from the book Math for Humans: Teaching Math Through 8 Intelligences (click the title to get more information on this book). You’ll find even more possibilities for imaginative math instruction by clicking “Home” on the bar at the top of this page. FIRST SOME BACKGROUND: The magic squares have been known since antiquity to have the uncanny ability to organize the first 9 or 16 (and beyond) counting numbers in such a beautiful coordination that many astounding math harmonies result. Youths are charmed by them to some extent from a numerical point of view but the addition of more approaches for more intelligences like the VISUAL/SPATIAL, the LINGUISTIC and the INTERPERSONAL, and even the MUSICAL, make them irresistably fascinating and mysterious.

See the sample Magic Square MATH ACTIVITY at the white page.

The page is simply a sample —quality is low to encourage fast lownloading. * There is a link at the bottom to go to the remaining two pages of this activity, the last one of which is of a quality you may wish to download, duplicate and try with children.
so link to a second and on that page you will have an option to get a downloadable page of an original, dynamite magic square activitiy.
This is only a sample of the over 90 activities in the book _Math for Humans: Teaching Math through 8 Intelligences by Mark Wahl.