Originally Posted by Zen Scanner
I'd suggest this PDF as a technique to try (also a number of threads here going through the same question)...

http://www.visual-learners.com/support-files/nbf-6-9-10.pdf

awesome! i made a table like this for DD5 a few weeks ago and we intuitively did the first few steps of the pdf - but there's SO MUCH in here that is right up her pattern-loving street. thank you thank you, ZS!!

(she said, inching toward the homeschooling inevitability...there, i finally said it!)

Every Sunday it brooded and lay on the floor. Inconveniently close to the drawing-room door.