Addie Abacus
Author | Sun Valley, ID, USA |
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Addie loves math, and she’s been thinking for a long time about a different way to teach math to young children. Morgan and the Forty Thieves puts math in a story context and demonstrates that math is simply another way of thinking about the world around us. So many things that we find bea.... more
Addie loves math, and she’s been thinking for a long time about a different way to teach math to young children. Morgan and the Forty Thieves puts math in a story context and demonstrates that math is simply another way of thinking about the world around us. So many things that we find beautiful in the natural world come down to the symmetries and patterns found in living things.
Addie hopes that this book will help you to understand math in a whole new way— that math is not just about memorizing how numbers work together, (although those skills can be helpful), it’s about seeing that all living things have math in their creation and growth. And these patterns in the natural world are not just with living things. If you throw a rock in a pond, you’ll see that the circles that ripple out have a pattern to them. That pattern has a language. It can be represented by numbers in an equation. Being able to read that language, being able to understand the relationships between the numbers and symbols, helps us to understand more fully the world in which we live.
Addie also hopes that this book will help you to understand that life is full of these patterns, and that they surround us all the time. In the Teacher/Parent guide, some exercises involve going out to observe the natural world around us so that we can think about why nature grows the way that it does. And then we can look at the planets and stars and wonder how they came to be and where we are in relation to the vast universe. We can look into a microscope and wonder how the world of the very small came to be and how the world at this tiny (quantum) level behaves differently from the vast world around us. The mysteries of the universe await you. Welcome to Addie’s world!