A few days ago I decided to introduce my son to the first of the Sir Cumference books. The entire series is one of the most popular living math books and came highly recommended by quite a few of our math friends. So I sat my son on the couch and told him we were […]
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Happy Rube Thursday, a day to celebrate Rube Goldberg machines, the over-engineered contraptions that perform a very simple task. Did Hogwash inspire you to think up or build crazy contraptions? Here’s another book we recently found, Lights Out by Arthur Geisert. This story is about a little piggy who doesn’t want to sleep in the […]
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 and funny contraptions found in them and creating no less complicated drawings for our future […]
