“Life is a school of probability.” -Walter Bagehot I don’t believe that we have ever really talked much about probability before, but we had fun discussing the concept the other day while playing a classic coin toss. Hunter loves coin tossing…
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Silver Dollars and Babies: Discussing Probability
Egg Division (Not-so Mathematical Monday)
Anyone remember Piaget’s experiments on children in the “preoperational stage” (2-6) where he theorized that children of this age couldn’t yet understand quantity? The idea of “number conservation” – that is, that the actual number or quantity stays the same…
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Posted in Brain Development, Logic & Reasoning, Math, Parenthood
Posted in Brain Development, Logic & Reasoning, Math, Parenthood
Exploring Symmetry (Mathematical Mondays)
“In reality, no one can teach mathematics. Effective teachers are those who can stimulate students to learn mathematics. Educational research offers compelling evidence that students learn mathematics well only when they construct their own mathematical understanding.” -National Research Council, 1989…
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Brick by Brick and Spatial-Temporal Reasoning (Mathematical Mondays)
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. -Albert Einstein What is spacial-temporal reasoning? Well first of all, the meaning of each word: spa·tial [spey-shuhl] –adjective 1. of or pertaining to space. 2. existing or occurring in space;…
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Chess Wars
“Then I’m gonna get you in jail!” Hunter says with a devious smile and a curved eyebrow. Sound effects follow with pows, blasts, cheers, and shouts. “Your turn!” He yells. We’re playing a game of chess for the first time in several…
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