Counting avocados, halves, and grapefruits
In which we determine how many grapefruits and avocados there are, and observe the brilliance of young children.
Counting avocados, halves, and grapefruits
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A happy report from the field
A happy report from the field
Every once in a while, someone shares with me a lovely story of a conversation that they had with their kid that was inspired by the work on this blog. These stories are tremendously satisfying to me because they remind me that isn't just me and my kids, and that...
Days to Christmas: Place value follow up
Days to Christmas: Place value follow up
In yesterday's post, I told of the Christmas Countdown cube calendar, and of how Tabitha (6 years old) changed my 06 days to 6 days by removing the leading zero. I challenged readers to consider her reasons for this. Of course I asked her. I showed her the...
Days until Christmas
Days until Christmas
Each day, Griffin (9 years old) has taken great joy in setting the Countdown to Christmas cube calendar the kids recently received from my father and stepmother. On Thursday, I was doing my end-of-semester grading from home and noticed after he had left that he had...
An evening ride on the A train
An evening ride on the A train
I was in New York City for a conference recently. I arrived at JFK airport on a Monday evening and took public transportation into the city. I observed the following scene. --- At about 8:30 p.m., a mother and her (roughly) 6-year old twin girls board the train and...