Minnesota’s Largest Pattern Block Mosaic
To celebrate ten years of Math On-A-Stick, we built Minnesota's Largest Pattern Block Mosaic yesterday at the Minnesota State Fair. Careful study of this next image reveals 24 jaggedy "rows" of 7 large hexagons, totaling 168 regular hexagons (with a few more than...
Questioning Piaget
Note: An earlier version of this post was part of the Talking Math with Your Kids newsletter. The provider I used for that newsletter ceased operating a while back, but I saved all of the content and will republish some of that writing here on the blog from time to...
Two competing theories, resolved
I wrote about two competing theories recently. Each is an answer the question Why do you never see a square on the rectangle page of a shapes book for young children? That question stands in for lots of other specific questions, such as Why do counting books tend...
Two competing theories
Why do you never see a square on the rectangle page of a shapes book for children? This is the sort of book I'm talking about. I asked this question of a colleague this summer. It turns out that my colleague and I have different answers to this question. I'll share...
