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Tag Archives: toys
Melissa & Doug’s Animal Pattern Blocks Set
Discover all sorts of great geometry things with Melissa & Doug’s Animal Pattern Blocks Set. Continue Reading →
Rush Hour Traffic Jam Game
Think Fun’s Rush Hour Traffic Jam Game teaches patterns, logic, strategy… in other words: MATH! Continue Reading →
Cuisenaire Rods
This is the first in the Cuisenaire Rods series. Video showing how to engage kids in learning coordinate pairs by tapping into their creativity. Continue Reading →
Union, Intersection and the Empty Set
Check out this way to see how union and intersection work – using SnackTraps and blocks. Also, how the empty set works with them! Continue Reading →
Teaching Subtraction Using a Balance
Balances are normally used for science stuff. Here’s how to teach subtraction using a balance. Continue Reading →
Counting with Ordinal Numbers
Ordinal numbers are “1st, 2nd, 3rd, …” but we need these to count items to arrived at the final cardinal numbers. All this fancy math talk – why not make it fun with some colorful bugs! Continue Reading →
How to Train the Brain to Understand the Transitive Property
Using Discovery Toys’ Think-It-Through tiles you can train the brain for the Transitive Property. Continue Reading →
How to Teach Division in the Sandbox
Seeing division helps a great deal with understanding division. Especially when it comes to remainders. This video offers a tangible way to do this. Continue Reading →
Using Toys as Curriculum Tools to Teach Arithmetic
Cups that are “built to scale” stop being just toys and start being the ideal curriculum tool to teach math and arithmetic! Continue Reading →