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)...
New to Minnesota, Jennifer Schuetz from the Fractal Foundation brought fun fractal activities, or fractivities, to Math On-A-Stick last summer. Younger students had the opportunity to learn how the Sierpinski triangle is a fractal - by repeating a simple pattern...
I wrote a blog post for the NCTM journal Teaching Children Mathematics. You should head over there to read it. Here are downloadable images to go along with it, which you are welcome to use in your home or...
A series of images argues that math is far more beautiful and creative than is represented to children and families.