Category Archives: Tools

Math and baseball

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A summer camp in New York City is using the basics of baseball to make math more fun,

Books to help the spatial skills develop

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We all know by now how important visual spatial skills are for children. They help develop math skills and are a good predictor of any issues with math at an early stage. The good people at KQED list no less than 15 books that may just help with that.

Read all about it: HERE

Preschool Math activities

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The Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education at Stanford University has a great site filled with activities for preschool math. Wonderful to give the little ones a head start on their later math capabilities.

Read all about it: HERE

Math comes to live online

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Phet has done a great job in providing simulations of important concepts for math and science. These tools are great to incorporate in your interventions with students.

Teachers/tutors and parents can register for free and get an explanation on how to work with the site HERE

Read all about it: HERE

Working on visual spatial skills

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Working with a child on their visual spatial insights and skills is best done with blocks and shapes and sitting next to them. In this day and age that is not always feasible so here is a wonderful alternative, fun and well known, the tangram now online.

Read all about it: HERE