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Week 3 Task 1: Combinations and chimeras

Today your mission is…Make combination tables and trees, and play guessing games with them.Ready, Set, GoOnce you build tables and trees, hide parts of them and play guessing games. Or make a puzzle:...

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Week 3 Task 2: MathLexicon

Today your mission is…Find words within words, make words out of words, and illustrate compound words.Ready, Set, GoMark Twain said, “Some German words are so long, they have a perspective.” In this...

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Week 3 Task 3 - Factorization diagrams

Today your mission is to…Browse a gallery of factorization diagrams below, and then make your own! Factorization diagrams show numbers in terms of their prime factors. This helps you to analyze the...

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Week 3 Task 4: Design by formula

Today your mission is…Make geometric art based on skip-counting formulas.Ready, Set, GoThere is little room for creativity in paint by number. In contrast, design by formula is creative, because you...

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Week 3 Task 5: Mirror books and snowflakes

Today your mission is to…Use rotational symmetry to create multiple copies of an object. And, since the number of copies can be changed from one to infinity, you will end up with a multiplication model...

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Week 4 Task 1: Multiplication models bingo

Today your mission is…Play the multiplication model bingo to see a variety of models wherever you go.Ready, Set, Go This is the same scavenger hunt you did during Week 1 task, What Is Multiplication....

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Week 4 Task 2: Real times tables

Today your mission is…Fill times tables with personally meaningful examples. This task helps to develop fluency and applications of multiplication.Ready, Set, Go This activity scales up and down: you...

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Week 4 Task 3: Decanomial squares

Today your mission is…Build decanomial squares, using the array model of multiplication. Array is the best model to explore algebraic properties of multiplication such as commutativity, and algebraic...

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Week 4 Task 4: Coloring the table

Today your mission is…Find and color-code patterns in the times table. If you look at the times table long enough, algebra will look back at you. Instead of 100 (or 144) disjointed facts, you’ll see a...

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Week 4 Task 5: Healthy memorizing

Today your mission is…Learn the spaced repetition method for memorizing bodies of facts.We memorize times tables toHave an easy, reliable, quick access to each individual fact.Notice and use more...

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What should you do when you’re bored in math class?

Hi I’m Rachel. I’m a high school student. I need your help with a book I’m co-authoring.Imagine you are sitting in math class. The room is stiflingly hot. Your teacher is droning on and on about...

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Give your feedback and ask questions about Camp Logic: Day One draft of a...

Camp Logic is a book for teachers, parents, math circle leaders, and anyone who nurtures the intellectual development of children. It is not necessary to have any mathematical background at all to use...

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Camp Logic early access feedback

If you are reading this, you should have received five chapters of the Camp Logic book by email. Please answer some of these questions, leave other feedback, or ask questions. Any feedback will help...

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If you are reading this, you should have received Chapter Two of the Camp Logic book by email. Please answer some of these questions, leave other feedback about Chapter Two, or ask questions. Any...

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What if we could learn math like children learn music and dance within a...

Do you know examples of being immersed in a math culture from the moment the baby was born? How can we make it happen? More details at http://www.moebiusnoodles.com/2014/08/math-like-music/

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