Category: Make & Grow
Rube Thursday
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…
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Press Here
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…
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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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