By Domenick C. Renzi
Every summer when I was a youngster, I could be found outside playing sports with the neighborhood kids from sunrise to sunset. When the weather didn’t cooperate, I could be found inside building with Lego bricks. As I aged and realized my dreams of being a professional baseball player weren’t going to come to fruition, my love of Lego remained. It has continued to grow during my more than 27 years in education.
Whether it was time spent as a fifth-grade teacher, an elementary supervisor, an elementary principal, or my current role as an elementary math specialist, I love sharing my Lego builds and creations with students.
Lego always found common ground with my math students. After all, Lego does have many math qualities. Bricks and plates are often in the form of arrays and can be used to teach area, perimeter and multiplication….
