Every Family Room in America Used to have a pile of board games. Not any more. Many households don’t have ANY. The internet and TV has taken their place in Americans’ hearts. I’m going to do my level best to convince you to let a few old-fashioned games, books and toys back into the family … Read more
This post is a follow-on to last week’s post about teaching subtraction facts and the previous post about addition. Please pull out your triangular flash cards and hold a review. If you’ve read both posts than you know that I’ve already explained two distinct methods for teaching the addition facts and one for teaching subtraction. … Read more
I love Math-U-See Did I use other curricula? Briefly. As a secondary math teacher, I had been trained to consider the spiral curriculum to be a good idea. As a homeschool parent, I came to realize there was no institutional requirement to keep pressing on when my children didn’t quite master a math concept. We … Read more
Brain Science to the Rescue Researchers tell us our brains are vast three dimensional webs of connections. The more connections we have, the more intelligent we are. Making homeschool lesson plans more effective is easy when we leverage this way of thinking about our student’s brain. We can connect what we are teaching to what … Read more