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Trying to increase the educational value of Minecraft through open-ended...
I’m not totally convinced about the educational value of minecraft, but my children are pretty obsessed with it. Even limiting their computer time doesn’t prevent them from spending all their extra...
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Four Preschool Math Games
My almost three year old is at the fun point where she’s interested in numbers. She’ll count to herself “1, 2, 8, 10.” She’ll identify when there are two of something. She’ll put on a watch and wear it...
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Playful disobedience
Yesterday my eight year old gleefully told me he was going to break the rules. He was going to draw inside the 45 triangle he was using to do his geometry work despite the fact the workbook says that...
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A Logical Graph Game
We made a new logic game. In it we drew a graph using circles and lines, and throughout this blog entry when I refer to a graph I’m refering to the type of mathematical graph used in graph theory,...
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Card game for practicing multiplication and order of operation
“Mom, let’s play more math games,” my eight year old said and I wondered what games to suggest that would pose some level of challenge to him. I came up with the basis for this game and he helped me...
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Picture Books about Magical Sea Adventures, and the games the books can turn...
I love approaching things from multiple points of view. I love cooperative games and activities, and encouraging the children in divergent thinking and problem solving, and I love looking for...
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3D tic tac toe and spatial reasoning
I pulled out the 3-D tic tac toe frame again. Our frame has three layers of wood with indents to hold marbles. The kids and I played with it in a couple of ways. We played the game, but then we made...
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Three Word Games For Kids and Parents to Play Together
We have a couple of word games we love here, that I thought I would share. Word Game #1. “… that, isn’t that…?” This game is played by someone pretending to not know the meanings of words. It might...
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my experience and plans teaching with Minecraft
My kids and I are eagerly working on our minecraft server these days. We build scenes and then add non-player-characters (NPCs) the scripts of which we write using a plugin called Betonquest. The boys...
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Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
My 12 year old and I have found another game to play together. We’re playing ultimate tic tac toe. There’s probably lots of variations on the rules out there, but the way we are playing it we have...
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