{"id":25716,"date":"2019-12-11T17:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T06:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25716"},"modified":"2019-12-11T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T06:37:58","slug":"teacher-uses-legos-to-explain-math-to-schoolchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25716","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Uses LEGOs To Explain Math To Schoolchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lego-math.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher Uses LEGOs To Explain Math To Schoolchildren\" class=\"wp-image-25717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lego-math.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lego-math-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As if LEGOs weren\u2019t enough of an awesome childhood toy, one teacher has found another awesome educational\/developmental use for this super-toy \u2013 as a math education aid! Alycia Zimmerman, a 3rd-grade teacher in New York, uses them to explain fractions, squares and other mathematical concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bored-panda\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/lego-math-teaching-children-alycia-zimmerman\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if LEGOs weren\u2019t enough of an awesome childhood toy, one teacher has found another awesome educational\/developmental use for this super-toy \u2013 as a math education aid! Alycia Zimmerman, a 3rd-grade teacher in New York, uses them to explain fractions, squares and other mathematical concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25718,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716\/revisions\/25718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}