Math and the World

We recently visited Bay Beach Amusement Park while in Wisconsin (it's awesome by the way). Rides there cost between 1-4 tickets and...

I've talked about Number Talks before. Recently I've had the chance to do a couple of number talks in a local sixth grade teacher (thanks...

Parker has told me that he knows what 90 and 90 is (or sometimes what 70 and 70 is). About. A. Million. Times. Here was our latest...

P: I can count to one hundred by fives. M: Okay, let's hear it. P: 5, 10, 15, 20, ... 100 C: What would come after 100? P: 105 M: I...

On the walk home today Parker was excited to tell me about the number talk they had done in school because he got to share his strategy....

Last night Courtney and Parker were reading Each Orange Had 8 Slices by Paul Giganti, Jr. and illustrated by Donald Crews. They didn't...

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

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...

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...