San Antonio Busy Kids

Welcome to Twyla’s Corner, where each Monday, I’ll post a question from the Blue Filing Box of math problems. First person to post the right answer wins the prize! Yep…I bet you want to know what in the world a Pringles Amplified Speaker is, don’t you? This very awesome speaker device is designed to fit onto [...]

Welcome to Twyla’s Corner, where each Monday, I’ll post a question from the Blue Filing Box of math problems. First person to post the right answer wins a CD from my all-time favorite children’s/zoologist/silly/author/Austinite/scientifically-correct/learning/sing-about-snakes/all-around-good-guy musician of all time – Lucas Miller. Who’s Where For What? 1. There are 6 prison cells. The calls are next [...]

Camp in 1973… • Pink lemonade (fondly called bug juice in my circles) • Jacks (onsies, bounce, twosies, bounce, threesies, bounce) • Swimming until my skin gets all wrinkly • Sack lunches featuring cream cheese and grape jelly sandwiches (don’t knock it till you try it) • Singing songs on bumpy buses • Coming home [...]

Last week, I had the pleasure of spending three days down at the Convention Center at the Alamo Region FIRST Robotics Competition. It’s the second largest FIRST competition in the country – the largest in Texas. And probably the loudest I’ve *ever* been to. With 108 teams and more than 1,400 high school teens participating, [...]

I love stumbling upon great resources – especially free ones. If you’ve got a child who loves math and you can spare a couple of hours in the car once a month, the Texas State University Department of Mathematics together with Texas Mathworks offers a free Saturday exploration for junior high and high school students, [...]

A couple of years ago, a small sign at a strip center caught my eye.  The name on the sign:  Mathnasium.  Ugh for me.  But for my son – a dream come true.  So we had to stop in. Turns out – it’s not a store full of math games, but rather a tutoring shop. [...]