What Happens When An Artsy Math Teacher Becomes Mr. Mom? Crazy Stuff.

 

When this math teacher becomes a stay-at-home dad, crazy creative learning began to happen.

 

When I say “crazy,” I mean CRAZY COOL and CRAZY SMART and CRAZY CREATIVE!

We’ve all seen the cute pancakes, breakfasts, and lunches that creative parents are making for their kids, but former math teacher and stay-at-home dad Nathan Shields takes it to a whole ‘nother level and makes pancake making (and eating!) into a classroom, teaching history, science, literature, math, pop culture, and more.

And he doesn’t just make the pancakes himself and serve them up. It’s an interactive learning activity for the kids. They’re fully engaged in this. These kiddos are going to be some smart cookies (pun totally intended).

This wasn’t just a one-time thing or a short-lived enthusiasm. The pancake photos on his blog go on and on and on.

The intricate detailing on these pancakes is profound. This man is math teacher, everything teacher, chef, artist, all in one.

Check out some of these amazing creations. And wouldn’t it just figure that his pancakes are all vegan? Just wow. I feel like a total pancake loser now!

 

Organs of the body

 

Platonic solids (who knew???)

 

MLK Day

 

Even Christmas is educational.

 

Veterans Day

 

Butterflies

 

Now THIS we could maybe pull off, eh?

 

For the Trekkies.

 

Slugs

“Seeing slugs around our house and garden everyday, we thought it was about time they showed up on our breakfast plates. We learned a lot about slugs this morning, including the fact that they have a breathing hole on one side, and that they each have both boy and girl private parts.”

 

Cephalopods

 

Sports

 

Einstein’s Pi Day, anyone?

 

Sharks pancakes

 

Happy Birthday, Paul Erd?s!

 

George Washington’s Birthday!

 

Winter Solstice pancakes

 

What little boy doesn’t love yucky stuff like animal droppings?

 

For Oscar night

 

Bunnies (but even this is educational….teachers never stop teaching, you know!)

 

An extremely cool edible zombie

 

Watch this amazing math teacher and his family in action below:

h/t Distractify