by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Introducing Statistics to Young Children Some off-the cuff thoughts about how to introduce statistics long before children see any formula. Thanks to Mark Anderson for the super-villain cards Morlun and Electro – these are beauty in the eyes of children with too...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Unifix cubes. (MathPickle, 2011) Use Unifix to play with patterns. One new unifix mime vignette I did with kindergarten children in 2013 was to enter a new classroom with unifix cubes sorted out in color piles. I lay down in the middle of the cubes. The teacher hit a...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Tribute to Eric Carl (MathPickle, 2010) Kindergarten students experience mathematical pattern and structure in many of their books. Some enjoy the predictive qualities of pattern. They like the rhythm of words and benefit from the repetition of meaningful phases....
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Beetle Sort! (MathPickle, 2011) Kindergarten students argue about which beetles belong to the collectible family. The photographs of these beetles are from Dr. Udo Schmidt, a retired beetle collector in Germany. Thanks Udo! Mathematics is a game played according to...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
My Pet Zebra (MathPickle, 2010) Introduce your elementary students to patterns, symmetry, order and chaos. Afterwards, you might look at the art below. If you were to arrange this art on a line from Chaotic (left) to Ordered (right) – where would each fall?...
