Multiplication

Do your little kids draw grids?

What do you see when you look at drawings by little kids? For example, grown-up artists noticed that many young artists draw big heads with legs. The more people talked about these shapes, the more meaning they found. By now developmental psychologists developed big theories of development around these simple observations: “Tadpole drawings appear during […]

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6 BIG adventures in #StreetMath

Binary Hopscotch

I am volunteering at elementary school recess, and was wondering if you can recommend some math games for outdoors – Anna Belaschenko, via the Moebius Noodles newsletter. Here is a collection under the #StreetMath tag from our Facebook updates. 1. Sequence hopscotch Use the old favorite to play with new sequences. How about counting in binary, […]

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WOW! Multiplication Observer: A few conclusions

Thank you everyone who participated in the WOW! Multiplication open course. We will aggregate questions and answers from the Introduction thread, as well as other course resources, into a book on multiplication. As all our materials, it will be an open resource under a Creative Common licence. Thank you for contributing! Picture: Multiplication Walk poster […]

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6 ways to collect multiplication pictures

Collect Multiplication Pictures

1. Collect pictures of times table facts for a poster 2. Put pictures in Robinsunne’s multiplication clock 3. Collect from the same context, theme, or story Animal legs for x2? What multiplication can you find in Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Minecraft? 4. Find examples of as many models as you can Larger pictures of […]

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