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Learning for parents and Math Circle leaders: courses, events, lists, mind hacks, and interviews. The how-to of Natural Math.
No Manipulatives Days
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…
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Greedy Triangle Math
We’ve had such a great time with Marilyn Burns’s The Greedy Triangle book that I want to share it here on the blog. If you haven’t read this story, it is about a triangle that one day got tired of…
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Pre-K Money Math
I’ve started giving my 5-year old an allowance of $2 per week. Last week he didn’t get to spend any of his money. So before going to a flea market I reminded him that he had not $2, but $4…
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Math Can’t Wait for Counting
The last few days my son’s play is full of numbers. All of a sudden he started noticing numbers everywhere, on and in everything. He wants to know how big his collection of garbage trucks is. He also wants to…
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