Book & Game Reviews

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 what to do, but doesn’t tell you why you are doing it or what to […]

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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 doing the same old things. It thought that if he only had one more side […]

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“The Cult of Right Answers” by David Albert

After we posted “Can you let them fail?” there was a lovely discussion at our Facebook group. As a part of it, David AlbertĀ (above) offered the Moebius Noodles community an excerpt from his latest book. David describes himself asĀ father, husband, author, magazine columnist, itinerant storyteller, and speaker. Here is the gem from David: The Cult […]

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Playing Math Every Day – November 14 – 20, 2011

Math games can be played any time anywhere. Here are some ideas for each day of the week. These games do not require any advance prep either. Give them a try this week and feel free to change them to make more interesting for your kids. November 14 – Claude Monet’s Birthday Monet would often […]

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