Hands on Math

http://handsonmath.blogspot.com/

A fellow blogger that home-schools their children posted these excellent hands-on math activities. The one that caught my eye and made me look further was the post on the "Commutative, Associative and Distributive Comic Book." This blog explores many other math concepts, including those that can be a bit more complicated for some students to grasp: for example, "Teaching Percentages By Going On A Math-Class-Date" where two students are on a date and order from a menu while the third student (their server) adds their total and the students on the date must figure the tip percentage. This lesson would definitely have been more memorable to me than learning it the way Charlie Bucket's teacher tried to relate it to chocolate bars.
I would use this site as a spring board for ideas on lessons that could be deemed "boring" to my students. There are many lessons that could seem redundant and terms that could be easily confused, but with the right activity and distinction, students would benefit from lessons similar to those posted on the above blog and retain the information they would learn from these hands-on activities.