Homeschool Math Blog

Recientemente he comenzado la tarea de traducir los generadores de ejercicios de matemáticas en español. Bueno, realmente es un amigo que hace la mayor parte de la traducción. Ya tenemos algo de presentar: visita Mamutmatematicas.com y genera ejercicios de matemáticas gratis ! Los demás generadores de problemas siguen pronto...

I've had some of my math worksheet generators translated to Spanish, in case you're interested: Math worksheets in Spanish . It's a new website... MamutMatematicas.com : )

A geometry question from a visitor: 1. How much time should be invested teaching geometry at an elementary level? 2. How much time is actually dedicated towards geometry in a tradicional textbook Your guidance will be extremely appreciated! During elementary mathematics, geometry plays more of a sideline role at first. It is intimately tied with measuring topics - and really, the word "geometry" means "measuring the earth", the science to measure the land. The goal of elementary geometry seems to be that the student be able to find perimeters, areas, and volumes of common two and three dimensional shapes. I would add to that the goal that the student can understand and form abstract definitions, distinguish between necessary and sufficient conditions for a concept, and understand relationships between different shapes before entering 10th grade. (I've written about that before in the article Why is high school geometry difficult? . According to the Curriculum...

An interesting math teaching related question again from someone. Hi Maria, I have purchased some e-books from you and they are very helpful. My daughter is in 4th grade and I felt that she is weak in understanding the following problems. Would you please suggest which e-book we need to buy from you to help improve her basics. Problems are as below: 1) Marge spent $4 for a magazine. She spent half of her remaining money on T-shirt. Then she spent $2 on a snack. Marge had $14 remaining. How much money did Marge begin with? 2) Dan is 4 inches taller than Mike. Together they are 8 feet 8 inches tall. How tall, in feet and inches, is each boy? I have not written an ebook that would concentrate on those kind of problems. I do have some similar ones included in the 6th grade worksheets collection . However, I wouldn't worry so much about those problems at 4th grade, especially the first one, because it requires quite many steps. She's still young. You might be interested in Singa...

This is what I've been working on behing the scenes so to speak... and now some of it is finally come to the fruition and is available to the public: (now comes the sales pitch as was made up by my dear husband) Meet Mrs. Maria Miller's Most Marvellous & Magnificent Math Mammoth Modified Modern Mathematics Meticulous Multiplication Methodology Major Madness - It's Mmm Mighty Majestic! Ok, back to normal... I have been making worksheets for SpiderSmart, Inc. tutoring company and the 6th grade ones are now available as two downloadable ebooks at: Math Mammoth Grade 6 Worksheets These aren't your run-of-the-mill worksheets, but more like carefully hand-crafted quality problem sheets, with varying problems that both emphasize understanding of concepts and computation. The worksheets do NOT have explanations and therefore best suit math teachers or others who can explain the mathematical subject matter to the student(s). I will later on (next year) be making more workte...

Some of you (if you're a mathematics professor in some college or university) might find this interesting to browse: Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers a LONG list of mathematics undergraduate AND graduate course materials as free downloads... Some of them have lecture outlines or notes, some have student assignments and tests. I saw even Java applets for calculus with applications , but mostly they seemed to be PDF files. So here's the link: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/index.htm

I haven't made it to the carnival for a while, but this week I did because Shannon emailed me directly. The theme of this 42th carnival is "42"! You might recognize that number from the hilarious sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy". In it, the supercomputer Deep Thought computes the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - and spouts out the answer as "42". (Well, then they go to finding out the exact question... if the answer is 42, what is the question?) Anyways, I enjoyed that book as a teenager. Wikipedia lets us know that the author Douglas Adams just had that there as a joke. (Well, that whole book is just full of jokes, as far as I can remember...) But, the 'meat' of all this is of course the carnival itself... Is homeschooling the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything? My submission was how teaching math in early grades does not have to cost anything .