Number Sense Blog

🎵Do you want to build a snowman?🎶 Exactly how big (or heavy) a snowman do you think you could make? In this week’s word problem challenge, Anna...

Who doesn’t love chocolate chip cookies? And the more chocolate chips the better, right? This week’s word problem challenge uses cookies to...

(Promotional poster for Mary Poppins Returns, Disney, Dec. 2018)

What do you like to buy when you go to the store? When you’re shopping on a budget you have to think carefully about what you’re going to put in...

Students aren’t always forthcoming about problems they’re having in school. The reasons why kids stay silent about it are many and varied: The...

Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as we know it was established and our world was...

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Q: Why did the droid cross the road? A: To get to the Dark Side! Droids on the Dark Side? Yikes! In this week’s...

Enjoying movies together is a favorite family activity, and if those movies incorporate math in an interesting and engaging way, all the better! ...

Pepperoni...mushrooms...ham and pineapple… No matter what your preferred toppings, I think we can all agree that sometimes pizza is a necessity!...

As a young equestrian, Danielle Gersh became obsessed with how the weather affected her horses. Will the temperature dip low enough so that...