Today, our guest is Joey Grether, an unbridled idealist, parent, and teacher. His journey to math play with kids started with designing tools and devices. Have you ever wondered how Montessori designed all the activities with her beads, or how Cuisenaire came up with the base ten rods? Here is Joey’s story about a colorful […]
Click numbers on the left and on the right to set up an example: [swf src=”https://naturalmath.com/s/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/69trick_2new_2.swf” width=400 height=400] This Flash applet teaches you how to compute times tables from 6 to 10, on your fingers. The trick was first recorded around 15th century, when merchants collected techniques called finger reckoning to calculate their profits. Back […]
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Subscribe to Moebius Noodles newsletters Pinterest | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ I am Moby Snoodles, and this is my newsletter. Send me your requests, questions and comments at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Book news Adventurous Math for the Playground Crowd is now available for Kindle and other e-readers in the .moby format. What is multiplication? Questions, comments, ideas, blog […]
