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...]
You can homeschool math, even if you haven’t taken Calculus
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...]
Learning “how to adult” can be fun!
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...]
Time out for some Christmas freebies I found
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...]
Help for all my kids in math
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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