{"id":707,"date":"2013-09-05T14:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T06:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/thurday-afternoon-math\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:12:48","slug":"thurday-afternoon-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/thurday-afternoon-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurday Afternoon Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>[This is a back-issue of one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/newsletter\">this site&#8217;s newsletters<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow, time flies!<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s back-to-school time in the US, so I thought I&#8217;d write up some ideas for helping kids with basic math skills &#8211; how to teach kids <a href=\"http:\/\/spoonful.com\/family-fun\/speed-math\">fast mental arithmetic<\/a> skills, for example, and did I already send you this primer on <a href=\"http:\/\/spoonful.com\/family-fun\/times-tables-breezy-easy\">teaching times tables<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to have some fun with math too! Here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/spoonful.com\/family-fun\/16-number-mazes\">number mazes<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/spoonful.com\/family-fun\/unit-fractions-puzzle\">fraction puzzle<\/a> that&#8217;s linked to perfect numbers and Mersenne primes.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time!<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br \/>\nMichael Hartley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\">Dr Mike&#8217;s Math\u00a0Games for Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [This is a back-issue of one of this site&#8217;s newsletters] Wow, time flies! Well, it&#8217;s back-to-school time in the US, so I thought I&#8217;d write up some ideas for helping kids with basic math skills &#8211; how to teach kids fast mental arithmetic skills, for example, and did I already send you this primer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/thurday-afternoon-math\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thurday Afternoon Math<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}