For parents of math learners who want to make math a highlight of their time with their kids. Get help from actual math teachers with all of the math problems in your life. Weekly tips, tricks, how-to's, and serious math fun coming at you!
Great Summer Math Week 3: War Heads
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For parents of math learners who want to make math a highlight of their time with their kids. Get help from actual math teachers with all of the math problems in your life. Weekly tips, tricks, how-to's, and serious math fun coming at you!
Reader, did you know, I’m a math nerd? Through and through. BUT, I was recently reading an article about the art of writing (because kids need to develop all these skills). It started with this brilliant quote, “A great tragedy of the education system is its inability to make writing an appealing skill. In fact, it feels like the system has been intentionally set up to make writing an absolute slog.” And I thought, yes. Yes! Take that amazingly well-thought-out quote, replace “writing” with...
Hi Reader, BBQ season might be over for most of us, but if you know me, you know that I don’t follow the rules…especially when it comes to condiments. Case in point: I take my hot dogs with ketchup, mustard, pickles, and…lettuce. Yum! Want to know something wild? Beyond BBQ season, ketchup, mustard, and pickles can make your kiddos’ math (or any subject!) homework more fun. Here’s how: Categorize math homework like this with your kid. Ketchup: Work they need to catch up on. (Get it?!) Think:...
Hi Reader, My family recently spent time in Japan and the four of us LOVED it. Before we traveled there, I heard so many people say don’t do Japan with little kids (ours are almost 2 and almost 4). And boy was everyone wrong! Don’t let me fool you—struggles ensued—but nothing too different from when we were home. And we enjoyed some truly amazing kid-friendly stuff! Like the kid's bathrooms. In Japan, they are perfectly “mini-sized” so my 3-year-old could do everything without assistance...