April marks the 30th year of National Poetry Month and with it a new way to explore the math that infuses the beauty of language. What do you think about when you consider how math and poetry might be related?…
You’re dropping one kid at a birthday party in midtown and you’ve got the other kid in tow. Heading home is an option, though the moment you arrive home it will be time to reverse course and head back to…
We’ve covered the critical pieces of developing counting with meaning in this post. What happens next? Enter additive thinking! When counting gives way to reasoning, it is the beginning of additive thinking. The journey from “count everything” to “just know…
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…
What would you think if I told you counting was actually not as easy as 1-2-3? I was as surprised as you when I studied the development of numeracy in our youngest mathematicians. What we might consider done and dusted…
How many dots do you see? HOW do you see them? This image appears in our Kindergarten curriculum as part of something called a “dot talk.” This is an opportunity for students to see math as something that is perceived…
Math colored glasses are really just a way of describing a curious, noticing mindset. When you put them on while you are out and about, you start to see the world a little differently. You notice patterns in the tiles…