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Grab your markers and create a Multiplication mini book

September 5, 2019 By Ticia Leave a Comment

place value notation lesson

Way back ages ago, my daughter was struggling to learn multiplication. We'd built it with blocks, we'd watched videos, we'd read books, but for whatever reason, it wasn't clicking quite yet. Then I combined several ideas, we built it and then drew out what we'd built creating a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: math Tagged With: 3rd grade

You can homeschool math, even if you haven’t taken Calculus

July 17, 2019 By Ticia 2 Comments

try teaching textbooks homeschool math curriculum

The last math class I took was over 20 years ago. Since I was an elementary education major, I only had to take "Math for Elmentary Teachers," basically it teaches you how to teach math. The last time I took a high math class was Calculus in high school, way back in 1996. It was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: math, reviews Tagged With: Homeschool curriculum

Learning “how to adult” can be fun!

March 15, 2019 By Ticia 5 Comments

teach your kid life skills so they can adult

In middle school, I took a life skills class. My two big takeaways came from two wildly different activities. First, and the reason I took the course, for two weeks we carried around a sandbag baby. I remember seeing the kids carrying them, and how they decorated them, and found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: math, reviews Tagged With: high school

Time out for some Christmas freebies I found

December 6, 2018 By Ticia Leave a Comment

middle school christmas math science and writing lessons

The best lessons in middle school (aside from days you saw the TV cart) were the days your teacher gave you a themed packet related to the current holiday. It happened all the time in elementary school, not so much in middle school, and I certainly don't remember it in high … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays, math Tagged With: 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, Christmas

Help for all my kids in math

February 5, 2018 By Ticia 2 Comments

Each month I give my kids a challenge. I print off the monthly calendar from over at Math Geek Mama (looks like it’s currently only in her membership site, but I’ll have an update on that in a few weeks). The idea behind it is to solve each day’s problem. But that is too easy in … [Read more...]

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Ticia Adventures in Mommydom Hi, I'm Ticia! This is the adventures of my family in life and learning. Follow along with us as we share our adventures. We're having a lot of fun and learning as we go.

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