We’re in the final stretch of the Kickstarter campaign now! The last ten days will determine just how successful the campaign is. Keep spreading the word, and hopefully we’ll get to 4x of our campaign target, hit all the [...]
I recently committed to donate up to 1000 Tiny Polka Dot games if people could help us find good homes for them. Within four hours of a mass email going out, 359 people had filled [...]
In a recent blog post I talked about the importance of starting from where things make sense. This may be one of the best ways to help your kids with math at home. If you [...]
Meditation on the Distributive Property In other news, I’ve been thinking about the distributive property. It’s usually summarized algebraically as: a x (b + c) = (a x b) + (a x c) A more general formulation is the old [...]
I’d always thought flash cards would be one of those things I’d never do. But at some point, I realized that the problem wasn’t the genre, it was the execution. Flash cards were either context-free or cluttered with [...]
News: A new Kickstarter next week Many of you may know our games, Tiny Polka Dot and Prime Climb. Both were originally launched on kickstarter.com. And coming next week, we’re going to have a new campaign, for a new product that has [...]
In the last post I gave an overview of ideas to help have productive and joyful math conversations at home. Now let’s drill down on one of those ideas. The concept is [...]
School is canceled, you barely leave the house, and you have a child you’re trying to help learn math. You’re going to be having more math conversations than you used [...]
The craft part is less my specialty, but happily, the blog Math In Unexpected Places did a beautiful post on Star Polygons a few years ago, and everything you need to turn this [...]
Another video challenge to share, called Subtracting Reverses. Once again, a strange little mystery can motivate a ton of subtraction practice. The subtraction here is focused on [...]
When you want a problem that won’t quit, it’s hard to beat Diffy Squares. This crazy little enigma has had more folks doodling squares and subtracting through boring [...]
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