Allowance day – time for the weekly trip to the Metropolitin department store a couple blocks away to purchase a new something… Who knows what… I’ll decide when I get there, maybe a bag of marbles. Maybe a pop and a chocolate bar. Maybe a toy car. The boy’s allowance is included weekly in my [...]
Modeling Bejeweled scores with Base10 blocks. Math wasn’t my strongest subject when I was a grade-school student. It was full of mysterious and unintelligble machinations with numbers that made no sense to me. Why do I have to find a common demonimator? Why does that number change signs when we move it to the other [...]
Go to post pageRemember your first day of school? I have a picture from my first day but I don’t remember the occasion. Of course we have pictures of the boy’s first day and I was pretty confident that he was prepared for school. Educators refer to “school readiness” and there are standardized tests used by some schools [...]
Go to post pageI got 35 cents allowance each Saturday and remember going to the corner store to get a can of grape soda for 25 cents and a Cherry Blossom for 10 cents. I also remember going door to door in the neighbourhood collecting pop bottles for the returns. There was an awesomeness in that freedom of choice [...]
Go to post pageWhat toys do I remember playing with as a child? My friend’s 54 in 1 electronics kit was very cool – clip the wires in the springs according to the schematics and create all sorts of cool gadgets. At home I had Lego. I’m sure I had other toys, but it’s the Lego I remember, [...]
Go to post pageAs a child I had only three television stations and pong was about as exciting as it got for video entertainment. Consequently, we spent a lot more time outdoors, riding our bikes, playing at the local park, and inventing things to do. Nevertheless, technology is a part of life with which we must deal. Don’t [...]
Go to post pageLots of people struggle with numeracy. I was one of those kids that had to work hard at “getting it” and I was more likely than not to avoid it, rather than tackle it. How then, to prepare my son for getting math when he started school? We had counting books, and counted together all [...]
Go to post pageFridge magnet letters and numbers are an iconic part of childhood. Picking out letters to spell your name, or putting them in order (alphabetical order !) was a pleasant enough way to spend a few minutes. Today’s market has a wide variety of fridge items. We have a device into which my son places a [...]
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