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Learning through play

Learning Through Play

A review of the evidence

Jennifer M. Zosh, Emily J. Hopkins, Hanne Jense, Claire Liu, Dave Neale, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, S. Lynneth Solis and David Whitebread (November 2017), LEGO Foundation

What We Mean by Creativity

What We Mean by Creativity

The LEGO Foundation

Play is more than just fun

Play is more than just fun

Stuart Brown, TED Talk (2008)

Powerful Role of Play in Early Education

Powerful Role of Play in Early Education

California Department of Education (2021)

Power of Play in the Primary Classroom

Power of Play in the Primary Classroom

Dr. Stephanie Smith, STEM Ed Magazine (2021)

Problems that Feel Like Play

Problems that Feel Like Play (PDF)

Sidewalk Math as a Pandemic-Era Diversion

Sophia D. Merow (2021)

Math Anywhere

Math Anywhere

Program Gains National Attention

Educational Service District (ESD) 112 (2020)

 Doing the Math

Doing the Math (PDF)

100K in 10 Challenge (2019)

How Purposeful Play Opens the Door to Lifelong Learning

LEGO EDUCATION
Wendy McMahon Oct. 24, 2022

Other Reads:

Denger, K. (2022). The Importance of Play in Middle School Mathematics. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 115 (2), 131-138.

Gresalfi, M., Horn, I., Jasien, L., Wisittanawat, P., Ma, J. Y., Radke, S. C., Guyevskey, V., Sinclair, N., & Sfard, A. (2018). Playful Mathematics Learning: Beyond Early Childhood and Sugar. London; England.

Jasien, L., & Horn, I. (2022). Fixing the crooked heart: How aesthetic practices support sense making in mathematical play. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 53(1), 41–64.

Knuth, E. J. (2002). Fostering Mathematical Curiosity. The Mathematics Teacher, 95(2), 126–130. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20870953


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