Category: Make & Grow

Playing 9 Apples with some boys!

Our family received the 9 Apples card game from Discovery Express Kids to try out. There are a lot of cards and the goal is to reach a target number each round. The cards are positive or negative, and there

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Root differences: a little exploration of patterns

Danny's Pattern

This is a guest blog post by Danny Phelan, who is a student at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, NC, studying for an Associates Degree in Arts. Danny’s eventual goal is becoming a novelist and screenwriter, as well as editor

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Math a Round, a game by Bright of Sweden

Math-a-round Sigma

My family and I have been enjoying natural math games and classes with Maria for a while now. We love doing math in an unstructured way and prefer to focus on concepts. But sometimes, you just need to practice the

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Calculus for Kids May 17, 2015 (Sundays)

Impressionist Dragon

This is the story of the fifth and final meeting of the Sunday Natural Math Circle doing activities inspired by calculus.   The first activity was making a flip book out of cards. To figure out the size of designs,

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