- Follow Musings of a Mathematical Mom on WordPress.com
Search Blog
-
Recent Posts
- How Many? – A book and a math adventure July 27, 2018
- Naming Numbers at Bedtime April 16, 2018
- Main Line Math Festival on April 22 March 18, 2018
- Funville Adventures is on a Web Tour! February 19, 2018
- Secret 3-digit numbers January 28, 2018
Archives
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsTags
- #mathed
- #tmwyk
- 1st grade
- 2 years old
- 2nd grade
- 3 years old
- 3D-geometry
- 3rd grade
- 4 years old
- 4th grade
- 5 years old
- 6 years old
- 7 years old
- 8 years old
- addition
- amusing conversation
- amusing discussion
- amusing story
- announcement
- arithmetic
- arithmetic games
- art
- big numbers
- books
- brainteasers
- building
- class
- combinatorics
- cool games for kids
- counting
- discussion
- division
- dolls
- drawing
- functions
- fun math
- Funville
- games
- general teaching
- geometry
- Golden Key Russian School
- graph theory
- group activity
- guest post
- hands-on activity
- interview
- jane kats
- Kindergarten
- learning games for kids
- lesson
- little kids
- logic
- Main Line Classical Academy
- manipulatives
- mathematical art
- math festival
- math personified
- math play
- math with little kids
- measurement
- multiplication
- not math
- patterns
- philosophical
- place value
- problem solving
- puzzle
- puzzles
- review
- sets
- subtraction
- symmetry
- time
- visual puzzles
- what is math
Blogs I Follow
- Number Loving Beagle
- Math Book Magic
- Mike's Math Page
- Math Minds
- Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had
- Hands-on physics for kids of all ages
- MATH and SCIENCE with my KIDS
- Talking Math With Your Kids
- Natural Math
- Новости Мышкиного Дома
- Musings of a Mathematical Mom
- ШКОЛЬНЫЙ БЛОГ: Русская Школа "Золотой Ключик" в Филадельфии SCHOOL BLOG Golden Key Russian School in Philadelphia
Tag Archives: 3D-geometry
Isometric graph paper and 3D pictures
Translated from this post by Jane Kats. At our math festivals and during Mousematics lessons we actively use isometric graph paper, aka “triangular grid paper”. Sheets with a triangular grid can be downloaded on our site here in the free downloads … Continue reading
Fun with pentacubes
Today we started a unit on geometry with the second graders. The first activity had them explore how many different structures can be made out of 4 snap cubes. They very quickly came up with the five tetrominoes: After a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2nd grade, 3D-geometry, geometry, Main Line Classical Academy, manipulatives, snap cubes
4 Comments
Making Cubes
Today I used Magformers to show Zoe how to make a cube. Then I said, “Now you do it.” She made me three! Here are the step-by-step pictures for one of them (if you go through them very quickly, it’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #tmwyk, 2 years old, 3D-geometry, building, geometry, magformers, math with little kids
1 Comment
Nets and Decorations
For the past two weeks, we have been continuing to explore 3D objects, and more specifically their nets. During the first lesson, we played with the nets of a cube. The kids were given pictures of hexominoes (arrangements of 6 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 3D-geometry, art, class, fun math, geometry, Golden Key Russian School, hands-on activity, mathematical art
1 Comment