Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK

Okay, I’m stealing my title for this post from one of my favorite blogs out there; Talking Math With Your Kids.  My kids get A LOT of math talk in our household, more than they get read to.  In most households it is the other way around; more time is spent reading to the child […]

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The Best Graduation Gift #TMWYK

My journey to the graduation gift we are giving high school seniors this year took me a long time to get to.  This graduation gift should actually start way before a kid graduates, but my husband and I are trying in our little way to give kids something I never had: Knowledge about handling money […]

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Building Number Sense and Fraction Sense While #TMWYK

So this week, two situations arose involving my son’s food and math.  One built on some big ideas around Number Sense and the other built on his early Fraction Sense, but both gave me an opportunity to be Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK.   Scene #1: Building Number Bonds that Make 10 and Equality We […]

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Subitize while #TMWYK

I so wish I would have had my camera at the ready this morning at the breakfast table!  I need to take Christopher Danielson’s advice and get Google Glass, but that’s a little out of my price range.  So I’m going to recreate what my kids said using the visuals below, but I can’t recapture […]

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