Thinking Blocks (Gr. 2-8) - K-8th Math Online for Homeschooling

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Thinking Blocks is an engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems. Using brightly colored blocks, students model the relationships among the components of each word problem. With the help of a virtual teacher, students walk through a simple problem solving process and arrive at a solution. When building the models, students must identify information that is given as well as information that is unknown. Identifying and solving for an unknown quantity is a key concept in algebra. Thinking Blocks encourages students to look beyond the surface to discover the concepts and relationships that are at the core of every math problem. Click here to learn more about the educational value of Thinking

The Thinking Blocks™ Team

We have been teaching math, science, and technology to students of all ages for the past 14 years. Our passion has been creating hands-on learning programs for classroom use that integrate all three subjects. Some of our more popular programs have been Gear Math, Robotic Rescue Missions, Mystery Theater, and Physics Fun Factory. Each program blends hands on activities with real world math connections. The technology component could be anything from video documentation to global collaboration.

More recently, we've been interested in teaching students how to express their interests and knowledge through programming. Our highly engaging projects teach students the fundamentals of computer programming and provide a powerful means of communication. We are currently using the Scratch program from MIT, the Alice program from Carnegie Mellon, and a robot equipped with LOGO