Gifts for the Gifted – Cats & Boxes

Cats & Boxes, Gifts for the Gifted Award 2023

Cats & Boxes is my first Gifts for the Gifted 2023 Award Winner! Check back each Friday in November and December for more additions to the list!

Tinkerhunts

Use Tinkerhunts from Mike Harmon, @HLTinkercad to get students familiar with #Tinkercad and #3dDesign #STEM #STEAM #DTK12

A Puzzle A Day

Love daily puzzles like Wordle? Practice your spatial reasoning skills with this fun game from Mathigon!

6 Ways to Support Spatial Reasoning Skills Online

I’m back online here in Texas after our week of crazy weather. It’s 74 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny today – and I’m perfectly happy for it to stay that way! My latest blog post for NEO was published last Thursday while my fingers were still too cold to type on a keyboard. “6 Ways to … Read more

One-Hole Punch Puzzles

I am so not proficient when it comes to spatial reasoning.  This makes sense to me because I can’t think of ever really practicing it as a child.  I didn’t build with Legos or blocks, and I wasn’t really into jigsaw puzzles.  Mostly, I read a lot.  That means I’m generally a decent speller, but … Read more

Spatial Puzzles

While searching for ways to help my engineering students develop some desperately needed problem-solving stamina and spatial reasoning, I came across these wonderful puzzles that are in color – and provide solutions. (Did I mention I need to practice my spatial reasoning, too?)  I gave them the TED Ed River Crossing Riddle last week, and … Read more