Number Sense Blog
Mathing With Your Kids: Compass Circle Art!
Dec 28, 2015
(Image via Housing a Forest)
We're always looking for fun ways to "math" with our kids—especially considering all the downtime during winter break! That said, we love blogger Tammy Dube's compass painting activity featured on her blog Housing a...
Math and the Holidays: Recipes, Ratio, and Proportion
Dec 23, 2015
What’s your favorite holiday dish? From fruitcake to latkes, whatever it is, it’s most likely made by following step-by-step instructions and fixed quantities of ingredients listed in a recipe!
The relationship between ingredients in a recipe c...
The Future is Here: SpaceX Rocket Launch a Game Changer For Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2015
Just in time for the holidays, here’s a history-making STEM comeback story we can all get behind! After a failed rocket launch in June that ended in an explosion, space technology company SpaceX successfully sent an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket into s...
A Time of Change: The December Solstice
Dec 21, 2015
(Image via John W. Schulze on Flickr)
December 21 and 22 (depending on where you live) mark the 2015 December solstice, commonly recognized as the shortest day of the year (and longest night) for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and the ...
Mathnasium and the Holidays, Part 2
Dec 18, 2015
Here's another round of holiday cheer from Mathnasium centres far and wide! First off, we can't decide what we love most about the holiday decor at Mathnasium of Lakewood, TX! Is it the adorable Christmas tree festooned with festive angels? Or may...
