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February 23, 2023

Family Math Night Resources

[Want to get right to it? This Dropbox folder has all the activities and PDFs linked below.] Teachers, administrators, and students all spend the bulk of their [...]

Posted In : , Early Family Math, Game, Math at Home
January 5, 2023

Another 21st Century Pattern Block Play Idea

I got a fun note from a friend yesterday, who has been playing with 21st Century Pattern Blocks with his 3.5 year old daughter. He had an idea for 21st Century [...]

Posted In : , 21st Century Pattern Blocks, Early Family Math, Game, Math at Home
April 13, 2022

The next generation of math blocks is coming!

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

Posted In : , Announcement, Game
March 9, 2022

“Prime Climb Success Story”

I recently received this lovely email entitled Prime Climb Success Story. The thinking here is super interesting, in my opinion, and wonderfully idiosyncratic. [...]

Posted In : , Game, Problem
March 8, 2022

4 Reasons Play and Math Go Together

There’s a huge, untapped possibility to improve math teaching and learning that is more playful and more rigorous than how most of us learned the subject back in the day.

Here’s how I know, and how to make it happen.

Posted In : , Doing & Thinking Math Classrooms, Game, Pedagogy, Summer Staircase
May 6, 2020

A math game with its own theme song?!

A teacher named Mark Esch emailed me recently to ask about using one of our classroom games, Horseshoes, in a movie he wanted to make. When he sent it to me, I [...]

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