My son got his first binoculars at age four. They were compact 4 x 30 binoculars from New Zealand-based outdoor gear retailer Kathmandu. With 4x magnification, the binoculars did the trick for a curious...
Who’s afraid of math? Not the generations of homeschoolers who learned math through the Miquon Math method. Miquon Math is a hands-on math curriculum for Grades 1-3, that uses Cuisenaire rods to allow children...
What would Star Wars be without the lightsabers? Perhaps just another special-effects-laden good-versus-evil epic set in a galaxy far, far away. My son, Motito, who is a dyed-in-the-wool Star Wars fan, would disagree. But...
Up until the 1930s, cursive writing was taught first (before manuscript) to school children in the U.S. An educational reform movement in the 1940s led to a switch in the order of penmanship instruction,...
Announcement: The 2017 Manila Science Entrance Exam Results are out! Photos courtesy of The Nucleus Online, the official Facebook page of the Official English Language Publication of the Manila Science High School. ...
On the evening of what was supposed to the be last day of the National Bookstore Cut Price Booksale in 2016, the country’s biggest bookseller ran a Twitter poll asking its followers if...
Here’s a life pro tip: When National Bookstore announces a Cut Price Book Sale, you run to your nearest NBS branch on the first day of the sale and head straight for the display...
I had almost given up on National Bookstore’s Cut Price Book Sale ever happening this year. The annual book sale traditionally coincided with the Manila International Book Fair, and I was counting on scoring...
Where do all pre-loved books go? Many are handed down from generation to generation or donated to libraries and charities. The rest find their way to book resellers like Booksale, the ubiquitous...
It’s only September, but I know a lot of people who’ve already made a list and checked it twice. If you happen to be one of them and are stumped for Christmas gift...
