I went to my son’s first-grade class today to observe as part of their Columbus Day open house. During math, they were doing patterns, e.g. finish this pattern: 0, 6, 12, __, __. The kids seemed to get it, with most of them quickly filling in the blanks. Then she asked what the “pattern rule” [...]

A couple of stories about maps and kids caught my eye this week. One is the story about a Cub Scout Pack helping to repaint a map of the U.S. on a California elementary school blacktop. “Painting a life size map of the U.S.A. on the asphalt of Withrow Elementary School was the goal of [...]