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No one ever sets out to lose a game, but experiencing defeat in a safe, supportive play setting can actually build critical life skills! Here are 5 life lessons we can learn by losing, plus tips to help parents and teachers drive them home. Who knew you could gain so much by losing?! 5 Life [...] This web article was published by Teacher Magazine. Here, a veteran Kindergarten teacher reminds us of the vital importance of play and the learning benefits kids miss out on when free play is squeezed out. Love the interviews with former students sharing what they learned during kindergarten choice time! Teaching Secrets: Let Them Play By [...] The Ontario Mathematics Olympiad, (OMO) is an annual mathematics competition featuring teams of the best grade 7 and 8 math students from across Ontario. This year’s Olympiad featured 124 students (31 teams of 4) who completed 4 contests, one of which included a logical thinking challenge featuring specially designed Chocolate Fix puzzles! The following guest post [...] With this post I want to introduce an incredible individual, Marvin Hall, whose Halls of Learning organization is dedicated to empowering young learners through education. A former math teacher and lifelong lover of mind challenging puzzle play, Marvin has dedicated his life to creating innovating new learning opportunities for children in Jamaica. Photography by Joanna [...] The following guest post is by Eli Jannes, a fabulous teacher in Key West, Florida who has been a champion of game play in her classroom for years. Here Eli shares the story of how her students kicked their problem solving skills into high gear to take on ThinkFun’s most diabolical puzzle! Right before [...] The following guest post is by Melody Velasco, an inspired educator and grad student who shares her use of ThinkFun’s Smart Mouth game as an enrichment tool in her after school program! I worked as an after school program coordinator at a middle school in California. Our average daily attendance was 98, so with five [...] We spent a fabulous afternoon yesterday doing what we do best… Playing! We welcomed a fantastic group of teachers from St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School, a co-ed JK-12th Episcopal day school (and my very first employer!) located here in Alexandria, VA, who came to learn and play! Just a week into their summer vacation, these teachers [...] This week, ThinkFun has had the privilege to host a group of primary school teachers from the Bukit View Primary School in Singapore… these teachers are amazing! The Singapore delegation poses at a local school – The yellow school buses provided an authentic "American School" backdrop! Bukit View is a prototype school in [...] In 2008, ThinkFun donated several sets of MathDice to the Arlington Academy of Hope (AAH), a US-supported primary school in poverty-stricken rural Eastern Uganda. We received an update and photos last year from an American volunteer teacher, and this spring we were contacted by Elisa Joseph Anders, a local parent who produced From One Village, a [...] Last week I attended the Sandbox Summit, a conference that explores how technology affects the way kids play, learn, and connect. Fittingly, the Summit was hosted at MIT University with the support of the school’s esteemed Media Lab and the Education Arcade. An incredibly diverse group of individuals came together to share their expertise, [...] |
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