Amazing Minds

09/23/2024

Looking forward to NCTM this week! Hope to see you in Chicago! My session is Friday at 8:00 AM: From Concrete to Confidence. If you work with middle school students, I hope you will join us!

06/03/2024

This year’s 2024 Annual Moving Forward Virtual Summit is Thursday! I am excited to be a presenter! You can register now for access to a variety of great sessions! https://www.c4ep.org/summit-24 This year’s theme is Reaching and Teaching All Learners!

Join me at 1 PM on June 6 for Proportional Relationships: Promoting Reasoning Through Representations. All participants will receive new, free material!
Hope to see you there!

05/20/2024

Are you attending this year’s 2024 Annual Moving Forward Virtual Summit? I am excited to be a presenter! You can register now for access to a variety of great sessions! https://www.c4ep.org/summit-24 This year’s theme is Reaching and Teaching All Learners!

Join me at 1 PM on June 6 for Proportional Relationships: Promoting Reasoning Through Representations. All participants will receive new, free material!
Hope to see you there!

11/24/2021

Happy Fibonacci Day! What are your favorite pictures of math in nature?
Happy Thanksgiving!

11/08/2021

Happy National STEAM/STEM day! There are so many ways to celebrate! Check out and for ideas. What are your favorite ways to celebrate?
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/ten-ways-to-celebrate-national-stem-day-with-nasa

https://momath.org/upcoming-events/

In celebration of National STEM Day, we challenge you to engage and inspire the Artemis generation as we go forward to the Moon by 2024 and continue to innovate in the areas of Earth science and aeronautics.

10/22/2021

Try a new Perplexing Puzzle! Help a pet find its owner in this challenge. Children of all ages love to be detectives! Try this engaging puzzle, and let us know what you think!
https://www.amazing-minds.com/perplexing-puzzle-02/

09/17/2021

Does your child love art? Check out “Escher Explorations”! This is a free event sponsored by MoMath: the National Museum of Mathematics
https://momath.org/family-fridays/

National Museum of Mathematics: Inspiring math exploration and discovery

09/17/2021

Introducing Perplexing Math Puzzles! Children of all ages love to be detectives! Try this engaging visual reasoning puzzle, and let us know what you think!
https://www.amazing-minds.com/introducing-perplexing-math-puzzles/

Our goal at Amazing Minds is to support YOU! Thanks so much for your input and encouragement last year. You had great ideas, and we listened!

07/24/2021

How fun! I missed this today, but they continue through the end of August.

Who’s ready for another Folding Fridays event? Get excited to fold a fantastic action modular: "Magic Circle" by Hiroshi Kumasaka.💫🟣 The circle can be manipulated over and over for hours of summer fun! Register for today's event at 4:30pm ET at foldingfridays.momath.org

07/19/2021

Is your child struggling with multiplication? Do you want to help in a meaningful way? Check out my blog on Hand2mind

Improve your child’s multiplication fact fluency! We explain the difference between fact fluency and procedural fluency, and offer easy ways to practice at home.

06/28/2021

This is amazing and beautiful! What mathematical patterns can you and your child find in nature? Have fun exploring!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQr8xDk_UaY

To attract a female fish, the Japanese Puffer fish will work 24 hours a day, for an entire week in a row, to create the most stunning sand art.This most incr...

06/25/2021

Play is SO important for both children and adults! How can we naturally incorporate thinking skills into play? Are all challenges fair? On which side would you rather be?
https://www.amazing-minds.com/the-power-of-play-alls-fair/

Happy Summer! The first week of summer has definitely brought inspiration for PLAY! I have always loved to play. Isn’t there something special about