Month: October 2013

Do your little kids draw grids?

What do you see when you look at drawings by little kids? For example, grown-up artists noticed that many young artists draw big heads with legs. The more people talked about these shapes, the more meaning they found. By now

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6 BIG adventures in #StreetMath

Binary Hopscotch

I am volunteering at elementary school recess, and was wondering if you can recommend some math games for outdoors – Anna Belaschenko, via the Moebius Noodles newsletter. Here is a collection under the #StreetMath tag from our Facebook updates. 1. Sequence

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Inspired by Calculus: Tuesday Math Circle Week 1

This is a quick report about our new local Math Circle. To all who asked, yes, we will produce online courses and organized materials for this content! Meanwhile, there will be these reports. On the first meeting, Circle participants introduced

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WOW! Multiplication Observer: A few conclusions

Thank you everyone who participated in the WOW! Multiplication open course. We will aggregate questions and answers from the Introduction thread, as well as other course resources, into a book on multiplication. As all our materials, it will be an

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