Why Seekers & Solvers?
A note on the name of this blog. I listened to the most beautiful description of what we want to build in mathematicians several weeks ago. A brilliant colleague of mine (Pete Prince, to be specific, who is co-head of…
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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…
Flexible Multiplication: The Associative Property
Today we briefly talked about something I’m not going to name for the students just yet, because we are still playing! We’re on a cliffhanger until Monday. We left this unresolved for now… What I can tell you is that…
Celebrating Earth Day the Math Way
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to take a moment to share part of a TedX talk from Australian math educator Eddie Woo. He shares the most magical explorations of what math is and how it is apparent in…
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…