Robots are cool! Just ask any 5-year old (I just did a quick survey of 3 5-year olds and they confirmed it). So let’s play a game that is all about robots, math and silliness. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQtwV0Atzdc Objectifying people is dangerous, but math entities – operations, functions, algorithms – love to be objectified! “Function machine” metaphor […]
Happy Rube Thursday, a day to celebrate Rube Goldberg machines, the over-engineered contraptions that perform a very simple task. We haven’t built any new machines in a while. Instead we’ve been leafing through a couple of books, talking about complicated and funny contraptions found in them and creating no less complicated drawings for our future […]
Have you read this book? Maybe “read” is not exactly the word here. Have you played this book yet? If not, go ahead and give it a try. The idea is simple – each page of the book tells you what to do, but doesn’t tell you why you are doing it or what to […]
These have been our math manipulatives for the last couple of weeks. Here they are lined up from largest to smallest. We usually use a lot of manipulatives with my son. But not this week. It was interesting to see how a 5-year old deals with something very abstract, such as numbers. Last week, while […]
