Peeps
This is one of my favorite tasks in recent years. The idea is that we will compare two sets of Peeps. Are there more of one color or the other? There is so much fun to be had counting Peeps. Now that Valentine's Day is past, Peeps (a common Easter candy) are back...
Baking cookies
Talking Math with Other People's Kids Month rolls along... Jennifer Lawler wrote up the following conversation on her blog. --- Jennifer is in the kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies when her son Ian (8 years old) wanders in and observes her methods. She has put...
Book shopping
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...
[Product review] The bathtub
Talking Math with Other People's Kids month continues... Today we pay tribute to the family bathtub, and its profound contribution to family math talk over the centuries. Don't laugh! Is yours more perfect? Dad and loyal reader Jon Hasenbank reports some math...