Saw a couple of interesting reads in the last couple of weeks, and they don’t have much overlap. Tracy Johnston Zager wrote a piece on math apps for kids: My Criteria for Fact-Based Apps and Jason Zimba, one of the people behind the Common Core Math curriculum, wrote about how he’s helped his own kids … Continue reading Comparing Zager and Zimba
Tracy Johnston Zager has an excellent blog post summarizing her experience at a recent conference. The post is a must read: Disrupting the Usual Rhythm Her post made me happy because everyone should experience math the way Zager describes in her post. In fact, everyone should experience math in this way all time time! Oddly, … Continue reading Tracy Johnston Zager’s latest blog post makes me happy and sad
I saw an interesting question from Tracy Johnston Zager on twitter tonight. Unfortunately twitter isn’t cooperating with me right this second and I’m having trouble linking to all of the tweets (ARRGH!!!!), so I’ll have to summarize because I’m trying to get to be early tonight. The conversation went along these lines: Tracy was in … Continue reading A question from Tracy Johnston Zager that caught my eye
Saw this tweet from Tracy Johnston Zager earlier today: The game looked fun, so I thought I’d turn it into a project with my younger son. Also, as a note, I haven’t really studied much about games, but this game looks a lot like the game of Nim. It may even be exactly on online … Continue reading A neat game shared by Tracy Johnston Zager
Saw this interesting tweet from Tracy Johnston Zager today: I decided to ask my kids what they thought about the conjecture. Each kid took the question in a direction I wasn’t expecting: 4th grader: 6th grader: We’ve actually had quite a bit of fun talking about area and perimeter over the years. Here are a … Continue reading A neat student conjecture shared by Tracy Johnston Zager
I watched Tracy Johnston Zager’s talk from Shadowcon today and it gave me tons to think about. The talk is here: Tracy Johnston Zager’s Shadowcon Talk One very interesting part of the talk was a collection of negative ideas that elementary school teachers shared about math. Those words are on the screen around 5:35 into … Continue reading Tracy Johnston Zager’s Shadowcon Talk
Saw this interesting tweet from Tracy Johnston Zager tonight: After going through the post I scrapped what I’d planned to do with the boys tonight and asked each of them to go through Kaplinsky’s three questions. I’m doing a geometry course with my older son this year, so I expected that these questions would be … Continue reading An interesting Robert Kaplinsky post shared by Tracy Johnston Zager
I been traveling the past couple of days but did notice this post on twitter a few days ago: There was some debate about whether or not this is a good problem for kids (4th graders, in particular), but I thought it had some fun possibilities and looked forward to going through it with the … Continue reading A neat number theory problem for kids from Tracy Johnston Zager
I’ve seen some interesting ideas from Tracy Johnston Zager over the last week about the relationship between learning math and intuition. For example: Although I’ve been traveling a bit for work this week the relationship between learning math and intuition has stayed in my head. Sometimes my thoughts have drifted to and old blog post … Continue reading A challenge relating to a few problems giving my son trouble
Over the summer we did a project on a game called Equilibrio by Fox Mind Games: A review of Equilibrio by Fox Mind Games I originally learned about this game from this Tracy Johnston Zager tweet: Since doing that original project we’ve lent the game to several family’s. It just returned to us yesterday so … Continue reading Revisiting Equilibrio
