EiE's customer service representatives have an encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of EiE, from big-picture ideas about unit implementation to the minutia of magnet sizes. Here are five of the most frequently asked EiE questions, according to the people who know all the answers!

The Common Core State Standards for math are pushing elementary educators to re-think how to teach math. How do you go beyond skills like adding and subtracting or the times tables to help kids develop a deep understanding of math concepts? Engineering activities are an ideal framework for meeting this challenge. 

What happens when you direct the energy and imagination of a kindergartener into the engineering design process? That’s the question guest blogger Melanie Flores set out to answer last year at Kingsley Montessori School in Boston when she decided to develop a Kindergarten Engineering Design Workshop. One source of inspiration was the Engineering is Elementary curriculum.