The 3-year old daughter of fellow Minnesotan, fellow math teacher and friend Megan Schmidt made the following proclamation a couple weeks back. It takes three things to make a sandwich #Tmwyk— Megan Schmidt (@Veganmathbeagle) May 23, 2014 This simple...
This post is edited and remixed from a post on my other blog last summer. Loyal reader Jim Doherty wrote in to report the following conversation with his 4-year old daughter Mo. They are on a long drive to a hotel. Mo (4 years old): How far are we?Jim: We are 20...
Math teacher mom (and long ago former student of mine), Megan Schmidt sent in the following report for Talking Math with Other People's Kids month... --- Her husband (who is not a math teacher) and three-year-old daughter—we'll call her Marian—are...
A classic toy that has earned its longevity.
"As in other areas of language development, it appears children infer the meanings of [multi-digit] numbers using whatever experiences they can access." This is one of several conclusions a group of researchers at Michigan State University and Indiana University...
I passed a lovely morning with some math teacher friends at the Museum of Math in New York City today. Sadly, I did not have Griffin or Tabitha along. We would have had a ball. I have three observations... One. There is lots for kids to do there. It is truly a...
The conversations we have with our children affect their thinking. Of course they have their own interests, but the conversations we initiate have an impact. The New York Times' Motherlode blog (subtitle, Adventures in Parenting—we'll talk about the equating...