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Math Storytelling Day, and math like music and dance: Newsletter August 4

Math is what you make of it

Subscribe and read archives Pinterest | Twitter | Facebook | Google+  Hi, I am Moby Snoodles, and this is news about Natural Math. Send me your questions, comments, and stories of math adventures at moby@moebiusnoodles.com In this newsletter: Math Storytelling Day Quick bits from our blog 1001

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Math Storytelling Day resources

Sand Drawing Stories

September 25 is Math Storytelling Day! To celebrate that holiday, people tell mathematical stories to friends, family, and the whole internet. September 25 we celebrate pretend-play and traditional wisdom in mathematical stories from all over the world. Tell the classic, traditional

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Math like music

Why Art Is Important by Kirsty Kelly

This story is a part of the ongoing conversation about children’s participation in math and the arts with Malke Rosenfeld of Math in Your Feet. Photo by Kirsty Kelly What if we could learn math like children learn music within

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Soroban abacus and finger math

Finger Soroban 824

  Have you ever wondered why the Oriental Soroban abacus has 4 separate beads? It is in base 10, not 4 or 5, so why organize it that way? In response to yesterday’s post Hand tricks! Alexander Bogomolny linked his

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