In a blog post for Scholastic, teacher Alycia Zimmerman breaks down the many cool ways she uses Legos to help her students understand a variety of math concepts. Because of the range of block sizes ...
In September my two young reporters and I had the distinct privilege to interview a Lego Master Builder. Ever since my eight year old saw the Lego Movie, the concept of a Master Builder has been ...
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vermont—Publisher Brigantine Media, based in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, has just released a complete program for teaching math using a popular household toy – LEGO bricks. Teachers and ...
There are tons of different ways to teach your kids basic math concepts, but if you’re looking for something a bit more fun, the folks over at Scholastic have a guide for using LEGO bricks to teach ...
This Friday a documentary will be released by the name of "A LEGO Brickumentary," and in it, a math professor will tell you how many different LEGO creations you can make. Of course the real number ...
It looks like any wheeled contraption made of Legos. But it's not. There's no Harry Potter in the corner, but this moon-rover-looking toy, seemingly with a mind of its own, moves a doll-sized chair ...
Master LEGO builder [Yoshihito Isogawa] has been on a roll lately, cranking out a number of robots that make drawings reminiscent of the classic Spirograph toy. For instance, he built an elegant ...
BUILDING BLOCKS: Scholastic has published a blog post from Alycia Zimmerman, a 3rd grade teacher in New York City. Her post has all of the major math M's: multiplication, mean, median and mode. It's ...
The next time you step on a Lego piece that your kids left laying around the house, you should remember that playing with the popular constructions sets and making a mess everywhere might be more ...
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Fifty Williams College students, most of them in a math class, will be racing the clock on Friday when they attempt to assemble a 3,152-piece LEGOS Star Wars Super Star Destroyer in 10 ...
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Three starships later, it turned out the 10-minute time barrier was too much for the scrappy Williams College crew of math students. On the other hand, there may have been a couple of ...