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I have been banging my head this year trying different math curricula for DS9 (level is ~PreAlgebra with some gaps). Looking back at my posts, I see I posted almost the exact same thing in February. I am not looking for another math curriculum per se, but a stack of interesting resources to strew (physically and electronically). DH thinks that we should try to increase the input and go easy on demanding output for now.

So, lay it on me! What are your favorite math resources for a kid who prefers Vi Hart over Khan Academy?

I'll start with what DS likes:

Books:
Murderous Maths
Life of Fred
Beast Academy (books only, not the workbooks)


YouTube:
Vi Hart (DS has probably watched all of her videos multiple times)
Numberphile

Other:
ZomeTool

How about going "old school" and finding a book of Martin Gardener puzzles. He has lots of books of out of math and logic questions and puzzles. We have many of these books on our bookshelf because they are what my husband found interesting in the 1970's.

http://martin-gardner.org/

We loved those as kids! I think I'm going to have to go find some for mine, now.

Someone on another message board recommended Space Math (produced by NASA):

http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/books.html

And Gardener also brings to mind Smullyan for fun zany logic. If you like Vi Hart, VSauce is pretty cool and rapid fire, though sometimes existentially thick. We've tried a few direct to printer subscriptions that once a day print out puzzles and math challenges. DS8 went through a phase of loving math podcasts, don't have specific reference, just angle; he'd do other things while listening.

What about some of zaccaro's stuff?


http://www.amazon.com/Things-Future...8&qid=1415360952&sr=1-7&keywords=zaccaro

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Investig...8&qid=1415360952&sr=1-6&keywords=zaccaro

He has other stuff that requires output though.

How could I have forgotten Martin Gardner??? We have a stack of his books that DS has browsed, time to strew some of them again.

Thanks everyone for the wonderful suggestions so far!

I will suggest this one:

Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics, Second Edition (Thomas Hull)

And Origami in general as an interesting entry point to mathematics

(disclaimer: I can barely fold my laundry ... but I have heard good things ...)

- Raymond M. Smullyan
- Martin Gardner
- 'Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathematics' by Bonnie Averbach
- Larry Gonick 'Cartoon Guides' (on math and other sciences)
- AOPS wiki math books (these are more serious resources):
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/Math_books .

We have one of his books "Challenge Math" which is for late elementary/middle school with logic/word problems at varying levels. So far it looks good and attempts to take the "dryness" out of math by applying it to other subjects or real life.