Number Sense Blog
Word Problem Wednesday: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Dec 30, 2015
It's the last Word Problem Wednesday of 2015! In the spirit of celebration, give our word problem a try... we'll update this article with the answer once we return in 2016!
Georgina is making a banner to decorate the house for a New Year’s part...
Create a Vision Board and Get Your 2016 Goals on Paper!
Dec 29, 2015
As the holiday season winds down and we prepare to greet 2016 with energetic enthusiasm, it's the perfect time to start thinking about all the wonderful things you'd like to achieve as the coming year unfolds! Making a vision board with your child...
Mathing With Your Kids: Compass Circle Art!
Dec 28, 2015
(Image via Housing a Forest)
We're always looking for fun ways to "math" with our kids—especially considering all the downtime during winter break! That said, we love blogger Tammy Dube's compass painting activity featured on her blog Housing a...
Math and the Holidays: Recipes, Ratio, and Proportion
Dec 23, 2015
What’s your favorite holiday dish? From fruitcake to latkes, whatever it is, it’s most likely made by following step-by-step instructions and fixed quantities of ingredients listed in a recipe!
The relationship between ingredients in a recipe c...
The Future is Here: SpaceX Rocket Launch a Game Changer For Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2015
Just in time for the holidays, here’s a history-making STEM comeback story we can all get behind! After a failed rocket launch in June that ended in an explosion, space technology company SpaceX successfully sent an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket into s...