This is a guest blog post by Danny Phelan, who is a student at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, NC, studying for an Associates Degree in Arts. Danny’s eventual goal is becoming a novelist and screenwriter, as well as editor for fantasy, science fiction, and horror novels. When I was in high school, I noticed […]
My family and I have been enjoying natural math games and classes with Maria for a while now. We love doing math in an unstructured way and prefer to focus on concepts. But sometimes, you just need to practice the math facts. So I was excited when we were asked to review the game Math-a-Round […]
My kids love playing with our button collection. Who does not? Buttons are colorful, cute, interesting objects. They are also an incredibly useful mathematical manipulative – a tangible representation of a set. Today we have decided to arrange 1, 2, 3, … , 34, 35, 36 buttons into groups. The first task was to divide […]
Here are three things we at Natural Math like to do with other people’s mathematical collections on Pinterest. Try for yourself if you have not yet. Browse a favorite collection, relax to beautiful images and videos, and meditate. Invite your children to browse together – it’s like a trip to an art museum, but it only […]
