July 27, 2026

Category: Playing

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Bugz & Her Explorations, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Decimal, Economics: Global, Equivalents, Fraction, Geography, How We Learn Best, Lils, Math Discoveries, Pattern Recognition, Percentage, Playing, Political Science, Questions from Lily's Brain, Reasoning

Algeria, Texas, Scale, Ratio, and the United States-Faster

Lils is diving into the Stack the Countries game, which not only focuses on global location/geogrpahy, but also political facts, information, languages, and customs. For every 8 or so questions she answers accurately, she is awarded another country across the globe. So far, she has about 20 countries, giving her at least one within every continent. […]

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Decimals and Their Equivalents

Today we worked on continuing to expose and explore the value of being able to express portions of a whole in various different forms, whether it be percentage, fraction (reduced & expanded), and in decimal. Lily doesn’t care and so it’s challenging to keep her focus. For the future of this concept, I’m researching angles […]

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Decimal Exploration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/decimals/play/   http://www.coolmath.com/prealgebra/02-decimals/04-decimals-converting-fraction-to-decimal-01   http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/decimals/read/1/    Currency (British) http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/znfb9j6   http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio/subjects/mathematics   https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/decimal_place_value/v/decimal-place-value

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Developing Self, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Fraction, How We Learn Best, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Playing

Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included

She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft.     Images posted in reverse order of completion  

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Developing Self, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Fraction, How We Learn Best, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Playing

Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included

She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft.     Images posted in reverse order of completion  

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Triple Pet Trouble

We read this book together this morning. All 60 pages. This is the first time Lily has chosen to finish a book this size. There are three stories within and usually, she’d only want to read one at a sitting. She infused her reading with feeling and interest, instead of monotoning this time too. Sometimes […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Playing

Mystery, Research, Brain Transference

“I want Cleopatra’s thoughts. If they mummified the bodies, did they sick their brains in jars? Could we now hook up those brains and, with our technology, get their memories and thoughts? Can we just make them (ancient brains) think again and see what that brain thinks through a computer?” “I’m going to write a […]

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