Talking Math With Your Kids

I have been thinking about patterns for a long time, occasionally making progress in understanding how children learn to identify and think about patterns.

The following is an extended excerpt of a cover letter for Is It a Vehicle?

To celebrate ten years of Math On-A-Stick, we built Minnesota’s Largest Pattern Block Mosaic yesterday at the Minnesota State Fair.

Note: An earlier version of this post was part of the Talking Math with Your Kids newsletter.

I wrote about two competing theories recently.

Why do you never see a square on the rectangle page of a shapes book for children?

I received this note recently: I teach 1st and I’m also in … M.Ed program for K-6.

I am currently writing the teacher guide for my next book, How Did You Count?

I am obsessed with this shape toy I saw in the gift shop at the Science Museum of Minnesota last week.

A very snowy winter is turning to a long, slow spring here in Minnesota.