Homeschool Math Blog

I found this link when looking through some "OLD" stuff (my newsletter 10 years ago... in this Internet day and age, 10 years seems like an eternity ago!). It's a neat little " game " for math facts: http://littleblueschool.blogspot.com/2007/09/math-card-game-for-addition-subtraction.html To be more precise, it is a  way for kids to write some of their own math problems using a deck of cards.  😃 But it can definitely FEEL like a game for little ones!

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I went through and thoroughly updated this article of mine... have you read it in the past? Four basic principles of deeply effective math teaching If you were asked what were the most important principles in mathematics teaching, what would you say? I wasn't really asked, but I started thinking, and came up with these basic habits or principles that can keep your math teaching on the right track. Principle 1: Let It Make Sense Principle 2: Remember the Goals Principle 3: Know Your Tools Principle 4: Living and Loving Math

An intriguing website.... problems, but not solutions (not that I can see... but maybe, if you subscribe to get email updates, you'd get the solutions?) https://playwithyourmath.com/ Their idea is, We take problems that we love, and we adapt them so that everyone (and anyone) can play. We design posters and handouts that hook you visually and explain the problem in just enough words. The problems that we’ve picked require trying, struggling, failing, adjusting, and trying again until, finally, a discovery is made. I definitely agree... that's what TRUE problem solving is all about! Doing it with math can prepare students for REAL LIFE, where often, the problems they will be facing at the workplace will NOT have a pre-written solution. And so, that's when it's necessary to try something, struggle, fail, ADJUST your method, and try again... that's what scientists do, day in day out, and people in about any profession who are really successful in their job...

I invite you to enjoy this Bible study about the tower of Babel , the division of languages there — AND the picture it gives us of SPIRITUAL languages today.

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Here are some totally NEW Math Mammoth products! Math Mammoth skills review workbooks have been designed to complement the lessons in Math Mammoth complete curriculum (Light Blue series). These books are designed to provide a spiral review of the concepts in the curriculum, and to be used during the school year, alongside the main curriculum. After a concept or skill has been studied in the main curriculum, it is then reviewed repeatedly over time in several different worksheets of the workbook. Each book contains 70-100 worksheets, and is divided into chapters, according to the corresponding chapters in the Math Mammoth curriculum. Each worksheet is designed to be one page, and includes a variety of exercises in a fun way without becoming too long and tedious. You can choose exactly when to use the worksheets within the chapter, and how many of them to use. Not all students need all of these worksheets to help them keep their math skills fresh, so please vary the amo...