Playing, dreaming, translating: Newsletter May 30, 2013

Types of Play

Subscribe I am Moby Snoodles, and this is my newsletter. I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Book news Friends of the project are starting translations of Moebius Noodles into French, Turkish, Frisian and Dutch. If you can help with these languages, join our crowd-translating hub: http://crowdin.net/project/MoebiusNoodles We will copyedit translations and release them under Creative Commons […]

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Free to Learn by Peter Gray: Review and Infographics

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“GO TO HELL.” Peter Gray’s book starts with a bang – Peter’s son curses his parents and educators. Peter and his wife are crying: “This time I felt, maybe, I really would go to hell.” What would send him there? The book explores the dire consequences of forcefully educating children. (Click the images to enlarge […]

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Toddlers in seven-league boots

Seven league boots

Seven-league boots is an element in European folklore. The boot allows the person wearing them to take strides of seven leagues per step, resulting in great speed. The boots are often presented by a magical character to the protagonist to aid in the completion of a significant task. Wikipedia Photo credit: www.zoedevries.nl Moby Snoodle’s friend Thys […]

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Where on Earth is Moby Snoodles? Some of this week’s travels

Here are some fine sites mentioning us this week. Nice to meet you, people of good will interested in math education! /waves “Latest lesson” hand-picks and reviews best education content. This is what they say about our book. Moebius Noodles: A Mathematical Playground for Young and Old Contrary to popular belief, mathematics is not an […]

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