Year: 2014

A month of math in March!

A month of math in March!

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that Talking Math with Your Kids is guest-posting on Tiggly's blog throughout the month of March. It's March Mathness. You celebrate that, right? There have been two posts so far: Why It's Important to Talk...

Talking Math on Facebook

Talking Math on Facebook

This is just a quick note to let you know that Talking Math with Your Kids now has a Facebook page. It will be a place for links and resources as I come across them, and typically before they get worked into posts here on the blog. It can also be a place for quick,...

Units of measurement

Units of measurement

This post is edited and remixed from a post on my other blog last summer. Loyal reader Jim Doherty wrote in to report the following conversation with his 4-year old daughter Mo. They are on a long drive to a hotel. Mo (4 years old): How far are we?Jim: We are 20...

Peeps

Peeps

This is one of my favorite tasks in recent years. The idea is that we will compare two sets of Peeps. Are there more of one color or the other? There is so much fun to be had counting Peeps. Now that Valentine's Day is past, Peeps (a common Easter candy) are back...

Baking cookies

Baking cookies

Talking Math with Other People's Kids Month rolls along... Jennifer Lawler wrote up the following conversation on her blog. --- Jennifer is in the kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies when her son Ian (8 years old) wanders in and observes her methods. She has put...

Book shopping

Book shopping

Math teacher mom (and long ago former student of mine), Megan Schmidt sent in the following report for Talking Math with Other People's Kids month... --- Her husband (who is not a math teacher) and three-year-old daughter—we'll call her Marian—are...