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Talking Math With Your Kids
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Talking Math With Your Kids is a personal blog at talkingmathwithkids.com about math and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog on talking about math with children, including a post on how ambiguous words like 'vehicle' complicate math conversations. One commenter simply recommends it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Supporting children’s early mathematical development
What Hacker News says?
You will love this blog: http://talkingmathwithkids.com
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on “Most Math Problems Do Not Have a Unique Right Answer”Submitted Counting Fingers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPerhaps it was the example you were thinking of, but Christopher Danielson really brings home the extreme ambiguity of terms using vehicles and children. I keep coming back to that every time I'm trying to have one of these conversations with people, especially when the question is deeper than whether a salad is a vehicle(as if that were possible). https://talkingmathwithkids.com/blog/vehicle-chat-invitation... or d…
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on “Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and people named Muhammad in medieval England”For book ideas, the Fairy Math Mother is a great resource. [0] I highly recommend getting a set of Tiny Polka Dot cards. [1] It comes with lots of ideas for games but it's also open-ended — we've had a lot of fun coming up with our own games to play with the cards. It's extra fun when you mix them in with toys; e.g. build a race track out of blocks and then draw cards to move your characters along the track to see w…
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on “Ask HN: Teach a 5-year-old math and science over the summer?”