Category: Make & Grow
Inspired by Calculus: Thursday math circle, Week 2
This week, we tackled the idea that infinitely many things don’t have to add up to infinitely large space. The idea is deep, but young children don’t have the mental resistance to it yet. But they do feel the sense…
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Math Teachers at Play Blog Carnival #67
Want to write about playful math for the next carnival? See a blog post you like? Submit your links at Math Teachers at Play! Deep math Evens and odds at f(t) Kate usually works with older kids. Following comments from…
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Inspired by Calculus: Tuesday math circle, week 2
These are notes about a Math Circle we run in Apex, NC. The main goal of this meeting was to explore the idea of limits. But the term “limit” is yet to come up! It’s a deep idea that has…
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Guest post: Math for a budding biologist
Karen Samuel Boley is the education director for Budding Biologist, a science ed company created by parents, for parents. Check out their Kickstarter for an ecological video game. When we think of the convergence of math and science, we think…
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