Math and the World

After solving the previous problem, I told Parker I was going to give him something more challenging (take a minute and try to solve it...

A few weeks ago I wrote the following on Facebook: Last night Parker figured out 3 ÷ 3/4 (in a story problem). This morning Parker said...

Parker really enjoyed the make a ten version of Go Fish (we played it several times). But recently P asked to play Go Fish with doubles...

The last time I wrote about connecting math to literacy Parker and I read a "math book"—a book clearly written to illustrate important...

Last night Parker wanted to play Go Fish, so I suggested we play a new version of the game, where instead of finding pairs you have to...

Last time I talked about how the game Too Many Monkeys can be great for helping children build their understanding of the counting...

We used to play the game Too Many Monkeys a lot, and we still play it sometimes. This was a great game when Parker was still learning to...

Disclaimer: This post is a little long and a little "researchy," but I hope it's still accessible. If that's not your cup of tea then...

Parker and I recently read the book A Remainder of One by Elinor Pinczes and illustrated by Bonnie MacKain. In it there are 25 ants and...

I'm starting a new series of blog posts, What Do You Think? (thanks to Drs. Courtney Koestler and Angie Gibbs for the name of this...