Screen-Free Coding for Kids: Thames & Kosmos Product Review

Screen-Free Coding for Kids: Thames & Kosmos Product Review

A review and video demo of one of our favorite new products — a robot your kids build and code themselves!

Water Bead Activities: 10 New Ways to Play

Water Bead Activities: 10 New Ways to Play

Unlock the marvelous potential of your water beads with these surprising and engaging learning activities!

LEGO Maze STEM Challenge

LEGO Maze STEM Challenge

Activities for creative thinking and problem-solving with LEGO bricks!

FREE App: Digital Geoboard by Math Learning Center

FREE App: Digital Geoboard by Math Learning Center

Geoboard are a classic math manipulative, and this is our favorite free digital one!

Volume: Give to the Hand

Volume: Give to the Hand

A basic principle of education: always give the concrete before the abstract.  In other words, give a new idea to the hand before you give it to the mind. We are generally awesome at this with little kids.  Walk into

Dan Meyer’s Three Act Math Tasks

Dan Meyer’s Three Act Math Tasks challenge students to make predictions, adapt to new information, and justify their conclusions. Get his full list of published tasks here!

Free Digital Resources: Teaching Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

Free Digital Resources: Teaching Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

Fear the fraction no longer! These high-quality, FREE digital resources are just what you’re looking for.

FREE Interactive 100-Chart

So many ways to use a 100-chart for math! This interactive digital version is intuitive and fun to use!

FREE Digital Manipulatives from Math Learning Center

Some of my favorite FREE digital resources for math work. Don’t waste your time or money with paid, lower-quality competitors.

Math Monday: Diagramming Ratios & Proportions

Question:  Joe has a bag of red, blue, and yellow marbles.  For every three red marbles, he has five blue marbles and two yellow marbles.  If he has 18 red marbles, how many blue marbles does he have?  How many