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Funville Adventures live on Kickstarter!

Posted on May 17, 2017 by aofradkin

Funville Adventures, our math-inspired children’s fantasy with Allison Bishop, had a great first day on Kickstarter!  We are very excited by the interest and support that it is getting!  You can check it out here. Our goal with this project … Continue reading →

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Get ready for Funville Adventures!

Posted on May 5, 2017 by aofradkin

Funville Adventures, our book with Allison Bishop, will be starting its crowdfunding campaign later this month and the plan is for it to be published by Natural Math this summer! Here is a sneak preview of our awesome book cover: … Continue reading →

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Functions in Kindergarten – A favorite

Posted on January 6, 2017 by aofradkin

A few weeks ago I did a series of lessons with the kindergartners about one of my favorite topics to do with this age group: functions!  I recall being quite surprised when I introduced the concept to my daughter when … Continue reading →

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Soon in print…

Posted on May 19, 2016 by aofradkin

It’s official: Funville Adventures, a book I coauthored with Allison Bishop, is going to be published by Delta Stream Media, an imprint of Natural Math. What type of book is Funville Adventures?  It is a math-inspired children’s fantasy adventure (who … Continue reading →

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Kid in the Machine

Posted on May 12, 2015 by aofradkin

A few weeks ago, we had a lesson on one of my favorite topics to have little kids play around with – functions!  When covering this topic with little ones, a very important first step is to create a cool … Continue reading →

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The function of 2048

Posted on June 9, 2014 by aofradkin

Yesterday Katie caught me playing the recent popular game 2048.  When I confessed to playing a game, she looked at it and asked me whether she could have a turn.  I didn’t see why not – the rules are certainly … Continue reading →

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Creating inverses for non-invertible functions

Posted on October 7, 2013 by aofradkin

This evening Katie and I were playing with functions again.  We were taking turns coming up with functions and having the other person guess the rule from a few example in-out pairs.  Katie was able to guess all of my … Continue reading →

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Some functions are not friends

Posted on August 18, 2013 by aofradkin

Following the suggestion of one of the commenters, I introduced Katie to the concept of inverse functions.  I started by saying that I want to tell her about two functions that are not friends with each other.  She seemed interested, … Continue reading →

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Functions – not so scary!

Posted on August 13, 2013 by aofradkin

In many math curricula, functions are treated as something complicated and mysterious and they don’t get introduced until some time in middle school.  But in fact, the basic idea is very simple and beautiful.  A few days ago I introduced … Continue reading →

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