The Counting Kingdom: Like Plants vs. Zombies using addition
It’s hard to believe that in many places around the country, we’re halfway through the school year. But if your kids are like mine, that also means they’ve been drilling their math facts for months, and they could probably use a change of pace. The...
Super cool, geeky holiday ornaments for trees that could benefit from chemistry or a sine curve.
Our family Christmas tree is never going to be pictured in a design magazine, and that’s not just because I let the kids do the decorating. I like to let my family’s personality shine through our ornaments, which means all of those kid-created ornaments...
Tiggly Math: One of the best preschool tech toys of the year.
Not every toy we buy our kids has to have some sort of “educational component” to it, though I love when I find a great toy that so brilliantly combines play with learning. Such is the case with Tiggly whose Tiggly Shapes was a favorite toy for us in 2013....
5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins
Are you obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 tech pins, plus lots more from our site and around the web. 1. We love finding awesome math apps for kids that are fun too. 2. Hide all those unsightly power strips before you start...
Math apps for kids that are fun and focused on learning? Goes in the plus column in our ledger.
We’re always on the lookout for the best math apps for kids that put some fun in the fundamentals, especially for the 3- to 7-year-old crowd. Getting kids excited and interested in math from an early age just makes good sense — good number sense, to be...
STEM education: 7 awesome ways to get girls excited, from apps to clubs to cool websites
I feel pretty lucky to have a couple of daughters who dig STEM — that’s science, technology, engineering and math, in case you’ve seen the acronym floating around. While there are so many exciting developments in the last few years designed to get...
Twelve a Dozen math app: Possibly more fun than those other apps on your iPad
I’m super picky where it comes to educational math apps, and I rely on my kids’ opinions . They’ll try anything, but it takes an extra special app to hold their interest. Twelve a Dozen is one of those exceptional math apps for iPad that earns an A+....
Todo Math app: Way more fun for kids than worksheets.
For me, as a kid, mathematics was fun until it wasn’t. I would say the party fizzled around the time If a train leaves the station at 10:15… questions became regular players on homework. So that’s why I enjoyed giving the Todo Math app for kids a...
STEM education: 3 of the best online engineering resources for kids
I was once a struggling engineering student, so I have a special appreciation for the courage and creativity of kids who really want to know how stuff works and aren’t afraid to jump in and figure it out. Now that one of my own kids is convinced she wants to be...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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