Patrick Honner’s Moebius Noodles guest post on mathematical paper weaving was very inspiring to me. Mathematical weaving employs one of my favorite making materials – colored paper! It was actually sort of challenging to get started, but after playing around I landed on some solutions which became a nice little unit of paper weaving and […]
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Playing Math Every Day – November 21 – 27, 2011
Math games can be played any time anywhere. Here are some ideas for each day of the week. These games require very little, if any, advance prep. Give them and feel free to change them to make math more interesting for your children. November 21 – Thankful Hearts Day Valentine’s Day is far away, but […]
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Halloween Fractals
If your child is all about getting ready for Halloween, then this can be a terrific idea to introduce some beautiful math. I saw this idea on Almost Unschoolers and immediately bookmarked it! The idea is to turn Apollonian and Sierpiensky fractals into fun arts projects. To start, you can learn more about these fractals […]
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Is Your Child’s Playroom Math-Friendly?
I remember when back in the 5th grade my parents put a huge map of the world on the wall of my room. That was the year I read lots and lots of adventure stories and looked for all the places mentioned in them on my map. That was also the year when I breezed […]
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