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🧠 Mental Math: Helping Kids Manipulate Numbers in Their Mind

Is a Math Problem an Imagination Problem?  When we think of math, many people imagine strict rules, memorized facts, and endless worksheets. But for kids (especially in the elementary years), math is much more like a journey through the imagination. It’s about being able to picture numbers in your head, play with them, and move them around like puzzle pieces. For children, developing this skill is called mental math, and it’s one of the most powerful tools they can carry into middle school, high school, and adulthood. Why Math is an Imagination Problem Numbers aren’t just symbols on a paper, they represent ideas. When a child sees “7 + 5,” the challenge isn’t just adding digits. It’s about imagining seven things, five things, and then combining them into a whole. The stronger a child’s imagination for numbers, the easier math becomes. Think of math as a playground in the mind: ➕️➖️Addition and subtraction are like stacking and removing blocks. ✖️Multiplication is making groups of t...
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23 Winter Activities for Young Children

Slide onto some snow
  1. Have a snowball fight.
  2. Make & decorate a snow man.
  3. Use containers of different shapes to make ice figurines.
  4. Make a structure out of ice bricks.
  5. Slide onto some snow.
  6. Make snow angels 
  7. Go sledding or tobagoning down a snow hill
  8. Go ice skating 
  9. Play ice hockey
  10. Conduct ice experiments. Record the amount of time it takes for different liquids to freeze outside.
  11. Research all or some of the countries in the world that experience Winter.
  12. Watch a documentary about Antarctica
  13. Watch a documentary about the Arctic
  14. Have a winter clothes ‘layering up’ race
  15. Get some window markers and draw snow flakes on a window.
  16. Make some snowflakes from construction paper.
  17. Make an igloo
  18. Make a hot chocolate station
  19. Make some s’mores 
  20. Go on a snow walk in a park and try to identify different foot prints. 
  21. Research different animals that hibernate during winter.
  22. Learn about how various animals keep warm in the winter time.
  23. Learn about groundhogs and how they help ‘predict the end of winter.’
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