Our 10 year old loves to build and he has since he was old enough to hold blocks in his hands. We started him with big blocks and then he quickly moved to smaller and smaller bricks. He will spend hours in his room building. He really is quite amazing at building. He w...

I have always wanted to learn how to play chess. To be honest, though, it has always intimidated me because of all of the pieces doing different things. I knew that the horses were called "knights". I also knew the pawns, queen, and king. I didn't, however, know what t...

Math can be a difficult subject. It's one of those subjects that comes easy to some, but it difficult for most. A lot of math needs to be memorized, so that it will make doing it much easier at a later date. Memorizing math facts is difficult for those students who nee...

Helping a child to understand how numbers work can be an abstract thing sometimes, especially when you have a kinesthetic (hands-on) learner. That's when I came up with "walking a number line". 

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