How Many? An invitation to #unitchat
Make math playful with a simple question that has uncountable answers.
How Many? An invitation to #unitchat
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Birthday Chocolate
Birthday Chocolate
A birthday present turns into a quick discussion of fraction division.
Units of measurement
Units of measurement
This post is edited and remixed from a post on my other blog last summer. Loyal reader Jim Doherty wrote in to report the following conversation with his 4-year old daughter Mo. They are on a long drive to a hotel. Mo (4 years old): How far are we?Jim: We are 20...
A short waffles conversation
A short waffles conversation
Those Eggo mini-waffles are paying off. We had this conversation the other day... Me: There you are, Tabitha. Two sets of waffles. Tabitha (six years old): That's 7. No...8!Me: [washing dishes with my back turned to her] Right. Two sets of four is eight.T:...