Waffles [Product review]
From time to time, we will be reviewing products here at Talking Math with Your Kids. Sometimes they will be products that are intended to foster mathematics learning, but not always. Today, we consider one that is not. We recently bought Kellogg's...
How many fives in an hour?
Our local public library has a summer reading incentive program. Children keep track of the amount of time they spend reading, and when they reach 20 hours they get a prize. Some of the prizes are good, including a ticket to the State Fair. To keep track of their...
Armholes
We were packing for a trip recently. I have developed a system for getting the kids packed. It is beautiful. Here's how it works: Send kids to basement to get suitcases.Keep suitcases on first floor.Send kids upstairs to get one type of item at a time. E.g. Three...
A research basis for talking math
A University of Chicago study is summarized this way: The amount of time parents spend talking about numbers has a much bigger impact on how young children learn mathematics than was previously known, researchers at the University of Chicago have found.For example,...
