What about an abacus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
what about a cake that's rectangular, with a brown border and black or green fondant on top, with white royal icing as writing on the "chalkboard" and the writing can be math equations or mathematical symbols. and on the sides of the cake you can do teacher-y type decorations (like books and an apple or ruler etc)
HTH
I LOVED doing matrices in Trig, and that window opens up all kinds of "the Matrix" jokes and ideas. I have no idea what level math he teaches, but pascals triangle, Fibonacci numbers, and Gauss, are all a few math concepts you might want to look into. Sorry I don't have any direct ideas.
I also love he abacus idea! You could make the beads out of fondant. Lay everything flat on a rectangular cake and use fondant to make 3-D beads and fondant rolled into thin snakes between the beads to represent the horizontal "wires".
I can't wait to see it. Please post when you are done!!!!!!
a caculator would be easy and cute. A graphing caculator?
LOL Pun intended!!!!
sorry didn't finish my message... note the symbol for pi would make a cute cake! So my pun was; make him a pi for a cake!
Thats what I was thinking, a real looking pie, but make it square with an r in the middle.
I love the abacus idea. If you don't want to make all the beads out of fondant, you could use junior mints or mentos or something. Also, ask your daughter if there are any particular equations or anything that the teacher seems to love -- I know my high school math teacher had a few!
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