Welcome to the NumberShire blog!

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Oh the Places We'll Go!

Hurray!
Today is the day!
We're off to Great Places!
We're off and away!

We have math in our head.
We have feet in our shoes
We can add or subtract
any numbers we choose.
We're not on our own. We've got lots of friends.
Welcome to NumberShire! Where the fun never ends!

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Borrowed from Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

NumberShire was mentioned on the Whitehouse.gov site last year:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/10/games-win-big-education-grants-competition

Here's an interesting link: Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover! It's about presenting math instruction to kids using real world problems: a subject that is close to our hearts. We're presenting math instruction to kids in a "real" virtual world!