Counting by fives
While doing the dishes, a 6 year old counts by 5 to 170 and contemplates ten-hundred, one thousand, and what comes next.
Counting by fives
Number
Counting, skip counting, fractions, negative numbers, and more.
Post-Halloween Math Talk
Post-Halloween Math Talk
File this under Talking about talking math with with your kids. Waiting for the school bus this morning, the two adults and three children discussed last night's Halloween events. The neighbor girl, W (9 years old), announced that her brother, E (six years...
A few quick conversations
A few quick conversations
Sometimes we just have very short conversations that are worth sharing here, but not worth their own full posts. Here are three such conversations... In the middle The main television in our house is in the parents' bedroom. As a result, 99% of the kids' TV...
Counting fingers
Counting fingers
Counting fingers A while back I met a mathematician. He is the husband of a colleague. He found my Talking Math with Your Kids project fascinating and asked repeatedly for additional examples of the conversations I have had with Griffin and Tabitha. He referred to...
Sharing pears
Sharing pears
I took the kids camping this weekend. Jay Cooke State Park is lovely. I recommend a visit if you have never been. We had the following conversation at the campsite on Saturday evening. Me: Griff, we have two pears and three people. What should we do about...
An evening ride on the A train
An evening ride on the A train
I was in New York City for a conference recently. I arrived at JFK airport on a Monday evening and took public transportation into the city. I observed the following scene. --- At about 8:30 p.m., a mother and her (roughly) 6-year old twin girls board the train and...
Holding hands at the market
Holding hands at the market
I take both kids grocery shopping pretty much every weekend, and I have since each was an infant. It's a routine for us in which Mommy gets some quiet time around the house and I get some extended time around town with my little ones. This time of year, the...
A short waffles conversation
A short waffles conversation
Those Eggo mini-waffles are paying off. We had this conversation the other day... Me: There you are, Tabitha. Two sets of waffles. Tabitha (six years old): That's 7. No...8!Me: [washing dishes with my back turned to her] Right. Two sets of four is eight.T:...