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Math Instruction versus Natural Math: Benezet’s Example
1930’s classroom (forestpark4.wikidot.com) Children are intrinsically eager and able to learn. If we step back from our limiting preconceptions about education, we discover learning flourishes when we...
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The Benefits of Natural Math
images: public-domain-image.com Math as it’s used by the vast majority of people around the world is actually applied math. It’s directly related to how we work and play in our everyday lives. In other...
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Natural Math: 100+ Activities & Resources
image: pixabay.com “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” ~Stan Gudder Today’s children are much less likely than previous...
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Evoking the State of Flow
CC by 2.0 Jonf728’s flickr photostream Flow is “a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do...
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Learning. It’s Not About Education
Learning is a whole experience of mind, body, and self in relation to the world When you pick up an orange you feel its texture and weight in your hand. You breathe in scent emitted by the brightly...
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Reading Has To Do With Play
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. – Victor Hugo Reading readiness and reading advancement has little or nothing to do with educational toys, apps, or...
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Collective Intelligence in Action
School systems often point to families like mine as examples. We prioritized outdoor play, read aloud daily, took our kids to museums, did chores together, and had a family dinner every night. Still,...
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The Way We Teach Math Is All Wrong
“What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning...
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Outdoor Play is Sensory Play
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” ~e.e. cummings One street over in the neighborhood where I grew up was a small pond where ducks congregated. The ducks lifted from the water with...
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Why “Sit Still and Pay Attention” Doesn’t Work
“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” Rainer Maria Rilke I was called a “fidget” and a “wigglewump” when I was growing up. I was told to sit still and pay attention. I had no problem paying...
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