Invite your kids to play with their food – and at the same time, with their math! Here are some Math Maker ideas and beautiful photos from our guest Francesco De Comite. Escher bird tessellation cookies. Please tell us a bit about yourself. I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of […]
Robots are cool! Just ask any 5-year old (I just did a quick survey of 3 5-year olds and they confirmed it). So let’s play a game that is all about robots, math and silliness. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQtwV0Atzdc Objectifying people is dangerous, but math entities – operations, functions, algorithms – love to be objectified! “Function machine” metaphor […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlO8RvA3Jb4 If you’ve been burned on school math, like I have, you might cringe at the idea of introducing functions to your child. Children don’t start studying functions until later in school. But why wait? After all, children learn about functions very early on through toys as well as daily observations. Besides, functions can be way […]
