Infinite thanks to everyone who participates in our math adventures – kids, parents, teachers, readers, developers, artists, writers, researchers! Thank you, friends! You can make your own fractal words with FractType, and nested fractals with PhotoSpiralysis.
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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 of engineers designing an airfoil or biologists replicating bacteria. At the elementary school level, we […]
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Do your little kids draw grids?
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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Outdoors and body-scale math collection
What does your children’s summer math time look like? Perhaps it is filled with worksheets and arithmetic drills similar to what they get to do the rest of the year. If that’s the case, it is time to get outside, and try mathematics that is playful, adventurous, creative, and lively! Try these ideas from our […]
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