The Greenwich Workshop Press has just released Horse, Indian, Wolf featuring the art of Judy Larson, and written by our very own Kathleen Kudlinski. The book is filled with concealed pictures in 25 of Judy Larson’s spectacular paintings about the American West (do you see the eagle on the cover?). It is accompanied by text [...]

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 [...]

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.