Parents of young children often ask why mathematicians stress pattern recognition and why the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics follows this lead by including pattern recognition in its teaching standards for elementary grades. Pattern recognition is important because it leads children to identify and predict the results of iterative functions.
This may sound intimidating, but the concept [...]

I loved seeing and hearing about Marianne’s new book, ADDverse, a delightful math and poetry  Read-and-See! From patterns to rhymes to the structure of three-dimensional shapes, the material is exactly what my first grade son has been loving and learning since Kindergarten.