Okay, admittedly, those wonderful teepees were already there, built by bigger kids, maybe from a Montessori school or scouts, but Lyons Cub carried several sticks and branches to “improve” them. In his former kindergarten, Amare Montessori in Clarksville, TN, they had big branches like that to build tents with, too. Then, he showed mommy around…
Last time, I’ve shown you how to make hyperbolic tilings of photos, which was great fun already. Well, let’s step it up a notch–my mathematician brother-in-law has sent me the link for a kaleidoscope app, which creates even crazier and more beautiful images! They appear immediately and don’t take as long to build up as…
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Do you love classical music? Maybe you have had piano or guitar lessons when you were a child or teen? Or maybe, you would like for your child to make an experience that was withheld from you when you were little? People have speculated for quite some time whether listening to classical music makes you…
Are you a math buff? My late husband’s brother is a mathematics professor, and he sent me a cool link with which to upload photos to distort and reflect them. Are you still looking for an interesting graphic for your site? Check out this website; it will furnish you with fun artworks for your blogs…
During my teaching years at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 2007-2016, I did some research about graphic novels, especially their usefulness for struggling readers and writers in K-12 education. One of my interviewees in 2010 was the famous Joe Kubert, who had founded a well-known school for cartoonists. I was surprised that he granted my…
In the fifth chapter of From Childhood to Adolescence, Maria Montessori talks about how children need to see real things; she mentions that in the course of the history of education, children first were just presented with illustrations, and later were allowed to see things in museums. However, “enclosed objects” watched by “confined children” (From…
