One of the favorite activities at Math On-A-Stick is the table full of Pattern Machines. We used to sell them here at the Talking Math with Your Kids Store. As you’re about to learn, however, making them is a bit time consuming. We are working on getting a...
It all started with a disagreement between Kassia Wedekind and her daughter Lulu. https://twitter.com/kassiaowedekind/status/1155951804590391296 Pretty soon, it wasn't just elevators we were arguing about, and it wasn't just Kassia and Lulu weighing in....
A new version of How Many? is coming out on Tuesday, from Charlesbridge. It has an all new design, some new words, and mostly the same images, but is published for the home market. (Whereas Stenhouse publishes primarily for the teacher professional development...
I am working on another book; this one will be about patterns. That means I need to learn about how people learn about patterns, and that means going to school. So yesterday I packed a collection of images and asked 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders what patterns they saw....
(Cross-posted from Overthinking My Teaching) Two and a half years ago, I was developing Which One Doesn't Belong? (before Stenhouse had signed on to publish it). I went on a tour of elementary classrooms to talk with K—5 students all around the Twin...
There are a bunch of people doing really good and interesting work with math and kids these days. Sasha Fradkin is one of these. She has a gift for tapping deep into kids' mathematical minds and for writing about the beautiful ideas she finds there. She has written...
I'm taking Math On-A-Stick and Which One Doesn't Belong? on the road—to the National Math Festival in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 22, 2017. If you're nearby, you should come out and say Hi! I have two Math On-A-Stick sessions—at 10:00 and 4:30—and...
We had so much fun the first time around, the Summer of Math is back for a second year, and it has its own webpage! The basics are the same as last year: You can head over to The Summer of Math webpage, pay for a subscription, and all summer long (June—August)...