What do you see when you look at drawings by little kids? For example, grown-up artists noticed that many young artists draw big heads with legs. The more people talked about these shapes, the more meaning they found. By now developmental psychologists developed big theories of development around these simple observations: “Tadpole drawings appear during […]
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6 BIG adventures in #StreetMath
I am volunteering at elementary school recess, and was wondering if you can recommend some math games for outdoors – Anna Belaschenko, via the Moebius Noodles newsletter. Here is a collection under the #StreetMath tag from our Facebook updates. 1. Sequence hopscotch Use the old favorite to play with new sequences. How about counting in binary, […]
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Inspired by Calculus: Tuesday Math Circle Week 1
This is a quick report about our new local Math Circle. To all who asked, yes, we will produce online courses and organized materials for this content! Meanwhile, there will be these reports. On the first meeting, Circle participants introduced themselves and started to explore infinity. Here are some purposes (whys) that drive our activities. […]
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WOW! Multiplication Observer: A few conclusions
Thank you everyone who participated in the WOW! Multiplication open course. We will aggregate questions and answers from the Introduction thread, as well as other course resources, into a book on multiplication. As all our materials, it will be an open resource under a Creative Common licence. Thank you for contributing! Picture: Multiplication Walk poster […]
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