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Math Storytelling: The Day my First Grader Fell in Love with Numbers

Kai And Friends Playing

Stephen Taylor first wrote about Zometool adventures for our 1001 Circles series. Now Stephen shares a more personal story, to celebrate Math Storytelling Day on September 25. For some, the love of mathematics grows gradually, over time. Other people experience

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1001 Leaders: EuclidKids LLC begins as a friend helps a friend’s 5 year old

Powers Of Two

Marcia Cooke is the author of two beautiful toys, called Powers of Two and Binomial Squares. They can be used to explore infinity, series, multiplication and proportions, place value, and equations with young children. Marcia likes to meet children and

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1001 Leaders – Interview with Jane Kats

Jane Katz chalk graphs

This is an interview with Jane Kats, an early childhood educator, math circle leader, author and math enthusiast. Jane talks about her math circles, what parents can do to help kids enjoy math, and what they should avoid. Jane shares

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1001 Circles: Train your robot with DrTechniko

Toddler CS

DrTechniko’s stories and games teach kids concepts about programming, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, computer design in the same fun and engaging way as “grandma’s storytelling time” when we were kids.

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