Holding hands at the market
I take both kids grocery shopping pretty much every weekend, and I have since each was an infant. It's a routine for us in which Mommy gets some quiet time around the house and I get some extended time around town with my little ones. This time of year, the...
Talking Math with Your Kids on Kindle!
Someday there will be a full-sized paper version of a Talking Math with Your Kids book (Hear that publishers? Wanna talk? You can find me at the About/Contact page.) Until that day, there is now a mini-version (15,000 words; roughly three chapters, $4.99) available...
Summer project (3 of 3)
We went to the State Fair last week. Having wondered about the height of the Giant Slide, and having developed a technique for measuring things, we needed to collect the information required to answer our original question. The only problem? No one but me wanted to...
Summer project (2 of 3): Measuring the Hill
This post follows up on a conversation I had with Griffin a while back about the height of the Giant Slide at the Minnesota State Fair. Our house in St Paul sits on top of an odd hill; higher than others around it. Historical reasons for this are murky but it makes...