Last Mile Math

We submitted a Solution to MIT SOLVE - Teachers & Educators Challenge! Send us comments and suggestions for how to make this solution work even better:

https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/teachers-and-educators/solutions/4804

To a refugee child anywhere in the world, for the International Refugee Day, a beautiful poem by Mahmud Darwish

لاعب النرد - قصيدة متحركة (The Dice Player) قصيدة محمود درويش "لاعب النرد" و ثلاثي جبران في فيلم تعبيري. Prize winner film at the ZEBRA Poetry film festival in Berlin, this is one of the first Animated...

Our girls from Yalaca School are figuring out how much paint they need for a wall.

Happy International Roma Day (and V's birthday)!

Congratulations, Nour!

Refugee child wins first place in mental mathematics competition in Malaysia (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian child Nour Laith Ibrahim won the first place in an international mental mathematics competition held in Malaysias Kuala Lumpur, her mother told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday.The 12-year-old girl was able to solve 235 questions in 8

Our kids in the Munyapata school goofing around and guessing the winner in a race of 2 frogs, Izquierdo (Lefty) and Derecho (Righty). Izquierdo is conservative and hops only 10cm each time, while the ambitious Derecho starts by hopping 50 cm but gets so tired that after that he can only hop half of what is left. Who will arrive first to the 100cm mark? The kids say: Izquierdo! And you?

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We are competing to get a lot of iPads from Duolingo for our volunteer teachers in Bolivia. Please vote for us and share with your friends:

Duolingo Back to School Contest Duolingo is giving out iPads to one entire language class in the U.S.! Enter to win and get ready for an awesome school year.

Our San Pablo kids and volunteer teachers posing for a class photo during lunch break

Our Munyapata kids trying to work out some geometry problems with paper models and sheer determination

Our team of tireless volunteer-teachers at Carmen Pampa, Bolivia

Our San Pedro kids work out math problems together--we are so happy that girls are taking the lead!

Back from my own travels last week, remembering the Roma Holocaust Rememberance Day, August 2:
Esma Redzepova's rendering of Djelem, djelem the Roma hymn adopted in the 70's

Esma Redzepova - Dzelem,Dzelem (The most beautiful song of world) - Macedonia Esma was born on August 8, 1943, in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia.During her life she has performed in more than 8000 concerts in 30 countries, with h...