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I’ve been following the #MathPlayEveryDay challenge from @EarlyFamilyMath on twitter. If you have or work with young kids, you should too! Day 1 – I Spy Shapes Day 2 – Math & Shop Day 3 – Number Hunt Day 4 [...]

Our 3.5 year-old son is suddenly counting everything, all the time. I’m trying to remember what, if anything, we did to support his early mathematical thinking. I do know that we never pressured him to count, or used flash cards, or [...]

Here’s an Upscale Pattern Block provocation to try in a classroom or at home, with your own set of blocks. It take 4 small triangles to build a medium triangle. It also takes 4 small rhombuses to build a medium rhombus. Does it [...]

It’s hard to comprehend just how mind-bending the place value system must have been to Europeans when Fibonacci imported it from India and the Middle East in the early 13th Century. Imagine trying to multiply Roman numerals together and [...]

A few years back a book publisher approached us to ask us to write a book of games. We went back and forth over various ideas, and finally started toying with the idea of using illustrations throughout a book that explained math games and [...]

You may have noticed that there are two new items on the “Award Winning Games” dropdown menu. You might want to check those out 🙂