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Virtual Family Math Night – STEAM Edition

Virtual Family Math Night – STEAM Edition

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We did it again! I’m excited to share with you that we created another amazing virtual Family Math Night event. This latest one has a STEAM emphasis and, like our original event, is filled with lots of fun, virtual and hands-on activities. Includes three brand new stations: A Paper Airplane Station where families will be creating paper airplanes then measuring and collecting flight data for a school-wide graph. At the Coding Station, students will have fun “programming” their parent* to do silly things. Then at the Honeycomb Station they’ll be…

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There is No Math Gene

There is No Math Gene

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Remember when I said there is no math gene? I meant it. But to underscore it, I’m going to share my son’s artwork. What does art have to do with math genes? Take a look at the photo. These are some of the art pieces that are hanging on my wall created by my oldest son. (My youngest son has an art wall, as well.) I’ll have to admit, these pieces are pretty good. The longboard piece (Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris…

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Will Power

Will Power

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I am thrilled to share with you a guest blog post by Dr. Parnell Donahue.  Enjoy. ~ Interesting article in this morning’s paper about will power. The investigators found that people who thought will power was limited and could be used up, had less will power than those who thought will power was unlimited! After reading it I wanted to say, “Well, duh.” But I had just told my wife that I did not want peanut butter for my English…

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Flashback: Bounced Check

Flashback: Bounced Check

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I was going through my binder of story ideas for my monthly Kidnexions Connection newsletter and found a post-it with a story about Nathan.  It’s a good thing I took the time to write the story down because I had forgotten all about it.  So here’s the first in a series I’m calling ‘Flashback’ as I remember or find things my kids did when they were growing up that relates to learning about money. Sometimes we adults use vocabulary words that don’t…

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