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 […]
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 […]
Happy Rube Thursday! It is a new thing I would like to start – a day to celebrate Rube Goldberg machines, the over-engineered contraptions that perform a very simple task. Think Mouse Trap game for this one. To kick off what I hope to become an online collection of Rube Goldberg machines, here’s a short […]
