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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
October 13, 2022

Upscale Pattern Block Provocation

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 [...]

Posted In : , Making and Breaking Conjectures, Math at Home, Math Musings, One Minute Math, Pedagogy, Photo, Problem, Problem of the Moment
August 24, 2021

Basketball math! Swimming math!

Following up on my last blog post about counting on the swings, I wanted to share some more videos of me and Katherine counting with our son, Asa. What’s [...]

Posted In : , Early Family Math, Math at Home
August 13, 2021

Swing Math

I’ve been interested enough in Early Family Math to join on as a partner. The goal of the project is make quality resources available to families to [...]

Posted In : , Math at Home
August 4, 2020

Our Remote Curriculum

We recently took on a massive overhaul of our summer/intervention curriculum. Seattle Public Schools wanted to use it for some number of students; this being [...]

Posted In : , Lesson, Math at Home