This math is… different…
Sometimes the math looks different from what most of us remember, and if you’ve sat down to help with homework lately, you know exactly what I mean. You come to the table ready to be useful, and the page is…
Helping at Home
How do I help, you ask? Advice for hands-on help at home.
Smoots, Kleins, and … your ‘you’-nit!
I came across this most charming article the other day, about a funny new unit of measurement called the “smoot” and named after Oliver R. Smoot Jr. who was in MIT’s class of 1962 who in 1958 lay his body…
Let’s Play… Tenzi!
If you’ve read the previous post on the fundamentals of counting, then subitizing is not news to you. If you haven’t yet, here is a link to that post! Tenzi is one of my favorite at-home-fun-for-everyone games that has a…
Data Literacy: Reading the World!
Data literacy is one of the more important skills we can build in young mathematicians, and one that is very fun to support both in the classroom and at home. There is so much to understand about the world when…
Dice and Dominoes
Dice and dominoes are probably some of the first quantities we consciously subitize and assign a numerical value to as children. (Subitizing, you say? What’s that? Check out this post on the many nuances of counting.) The “pip” or dot…