Mathematics in the eyes of a child

There is no better exercise for the mind than strategic and tactical games. And there is a whole array of them to choose from. The royal game of chess, well-known and played in our country since time immemorial, along with its more modest cousin – ...

  The numbers come in pairs. And, as it often happens with pairs, it was the nature itself that bound them together. Not this cosmic, eternal, rotating the celestial spheres, but this common, familiar and human. From the perspective of the Andro...

  Fingers are children’s favourite and very „handy” calculator. The little students can use them with unbelievable skill and inventiveness. Sometimes I have a feeling that, like old-time bookkeepers armed with their abaci, they can calculate with ...

  Mathematics without a mirror? No way! A model particularly useful for mathematical purposes is a half-transparent one, which both reflects the image and lets us to see the things on the other side through it. This enables us to find, in an inter...

  I think no one will question the fact that the age of nine is a beautiful stage of life. But if somebody thinks a person of this age – being a thinking person without any doubts –  is the impersonation of gravity, steady and predictable, then… t...