Children's Museum Of Houston


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In this math activity, learners create symmetrical designs for paper models of special blouses known as huipiles.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 8 5 to 10 minutes
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In this math activity, learners use what they know about shapes to copy a friend's hidden picture. Learners create a design out of pattern blocks and then hide their picture behind a screen.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use tangrams ( 7-piece puzzle tiles) to assemble a variety of shapes. Tangrams are ideal for improving spatial reasoning and geometry properties.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 8 10 to 30 minutes
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In this math activity, learners play a game and use a variety of strategies to solve a hidden number problem (or missing factor). Learners practice their number and operations skills.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 8 5 to 10 minutes
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In this card game, learners make two sets of three cards that are alike. Learners must justify to the rest of the players why the three cards belong in each set.

free Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners develop spatial reasoning skills as they blow bubbles and observe what happens when the bubbles connect.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes
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In this math activity, learners predict how many pom-poms they can toss inside a circle from three feet away. Use this activity to help learners explore probability.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners create air cannons out of everyday materials. Learners use their air cannons to investigate air as a force and air pressure.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this math game, learners toss plastic cups to land just right and collect points to win.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes
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In this math activity, learners create their own units of measurement by making noodle rulers. Learners practice estimating and measuring objects using the noodle rulers .

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes