Using Toys as Curriculum Tools to Teach Arithmetic
Want to give your kiddos a jump start on multiplication and division? What to help the ones struggling with division to grasp it better? The Discovery Toys Measure Up Cups can do just that. They are...
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How to Teach Division in the Sandbox
Need to offer a better way to understand the concept of division and remainders? Try it in the sandbox! The Discovery Toys Measure Up Cups are proportional, so they allow a really engaging way to see...
View ArticleHow to Train the Brain to Understand the Transitive Property
Remember the ol' "if A equals B and B equals C, then A equals C" deal? At parties it's a great line to drop. In math, it's officially called ... cue music... The Transitive Property Saying it is fun,...
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Counting with Ordinal Numbers
In the last post I discussed cardinal and ordinal numbers. I gave definitions but not much in the way of examples. Here's an example of using ordinal numbers to count up to arrive at the final cardinal...
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Teaching Subtraction Using a Balance
I love finding nifty ways to use tools for teaching math. Especially tools that aren't supposed to teach math. Or at least the math I'm trying to get it to teach. I have this very cool balance that I...
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Union, Intersection and the Empty Set
The union is on the left and the intersection is on the right. I discussed empty sets in a previous article. I hadn't yet listened to the recent podcast of The Math Dude, Jason Marshall, in which he...
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Cuisenaire Rods
Cuisenaire Rods are brightly colored wooden sticks. Technically, they're "proportionally sized rectangular parallelepipeds." (But only say that if you want to hear your 3 year old repeat something...
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Rush Hour Traffic Jam Game
My sister-in-law showed me the Rush Hour Traffic Jam Game by Think Fun this weekend. She "assigned" one of the harder cards in the deck to me (sometimes it sucks to be known as the math mom) and...
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Melissa & Doug's Animal Pattern Blocks Set
What did the hexagon say to the trapezoid? "I'm twice the shape you'll ever be!" Corny - right? I made that joke up while playing with Melissa & Doug's Animal Pattern Blocks. It has ten different...
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Graphing with the Lite-Brite
It's not just for playtime anymore! Drag out the old one, pick up a used Lite-Brite or grab a brand new Hasbro Lite-Brite. Or... click to get the Deadlift Dynamite...
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