I am very excited to let folks know that Dan Finkel of Math for Love has scaled up 21st Century Pattern Blocks production and availability. They’ve been available here on this site for a few years now. At first I was making them on a maker-space laser cutter,...
A newsletter and a new plaything a couple years in the making.
It all started with a disagreement between Kassia Wedekind and her daughter Lulu. Lulu (6) and I have an ongoing debate about "What makes a vehicle a vehicle." She says, "Moves people and stuff from place to place." She's arguing hard for...
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....
This is Molly. This is Chris. Molly is a math leader who lives in Vancouver, WA and started a project called Math Anywhere. Chris lives in Chicago where he supervises secondary math for the Chicago Public Schools and leaves math in places for others to find. I met...
(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...