[Reposted from Alexandra O Fradkin’s blog Musings of a Mathematical Mom; listed in reverse chronological order]
Witnessing the woes of math homework
Highlights of 2017
Discovering the area of a trapezoid
“Math you can play” – books with games
Isometric graph paper and 3D pictures
Fun with pentacubes
Funville Adventures launched!
Counting crocodile legs
Drawing heads, tails, knees, and toes – useful?
Counting beads
Playing Broken Telephone
A figure with pointy things and a line, a line, and a line
Protecting against magic
Skip counting or word skipping?
Numicon – combining geometry and arithmetic
Discussing the meaning of “almost” with an 8 year old
From math-hater to mathematician and computer scientist: The story of Allison Bishop
A number talk that turned into an investigation
Funville Adventures live on Kickstarter!
Logical Fun, Part II
Get ready for Funville Adventures!
Games with the multiplication table
Logical Fun, Part I
Arithmetic games – is that boring?
Playing with symmetry in kindergarten
The joys of peas and toothpicks for all ages!
Math enrichment – what is the value?
3-digit numbers are tricky! Part II
Entertaining kindergartners with caterpillars, dots, and monsters
3-digit numbers are tricky!
Games with tanks and mirror books
Measuring everything in sight!
Functions in Kindergarten – A favorite
Avoid Hard Work! – A book for problem-solvers of all levels (toddler to mathematician)
Lots of fun with Tiny Polka Dot
Conservation of fingers and toes
Dots in a Square from Math Without Words
Double perfect squares
Four colors or more?
The Piaget Phenomenon
Time, symmetry, and unexpected turns
Why not count on our fingers?
Fibonacci Trees
Numbers on a Line