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Integers Made Easy
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
Using a village carpet and a small car, you can get across the
concepts of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers.
Benezet
Centre
Over 70 years ago in Manchester, New Hampshire, children learnt
no formal arithmetic until grade 6 (about age 11). The program's
creator, Superintendent Louis Benezet, describes it.
Breaking
Away from the Math Book
Creative Projects for K-8. In English and Spanish. A tad hard
to navigate, as you must use your back button to navigate back
to the language choice page, and then go forward again. But the
innovative lessons are worth the effort.
Crazy
for Calculating! Making Math Fun
My children love math. They like the challenge of ripping into
a complex algebra problem and playing around with logic puzzles.
And although we talk about math problems at the dinner table,
I still need a calculator to balance my checkbook. By Sue Smith-Heavenrich.
Just
Do the Math!
If you figure the actual math time at 30 hours a year for 8 years
(accounting for the wasted time in the early years), it totals
240 hours. Lo and behold - if, at age 15 or so, you wanted to
learn all the math K-12, weren't inhibited by math anxiety, and
were willing to spend 30 hours a week at it, it would take you...8
weeks! Nothing magic here, except that you might actually learn
it. By David Albert
Multiplication
Teaching Tips
A set of useful tricks for teaching multiplication facts so that
students can remember them. or at least figure them out again
in a pinch.
Perspectives
on Science & Technology
An educational website with a database of information on a variety
of units-of-measure. Look for new perspectives on the magnitude
of any physical quantity. Assignments are provided for the
homeschooler.
Teaching
Math Better
My view of math teaching is that students take part in the learning
process. They investigate and explore, and thereby can
actually 'find' math themselves. A series of articles by Maria
Miller.
Understanding
Algebra: The Way Algebra "Works"
If you are having difficulty with algebra, these pages may be
of some help because they offer different sorts of explanations,
in some sense more "psychologically complete" than
are usually found in algebra texts. By Rick Garlikov
Homeschooling
Math
The
Delights of Exploring Math With Your Child
The question of how to provide our children with a good math
education often causes undue anxiety. With a clearer and more
relaxed understanding of what it is that we're trying to accomplish,
we can present it as just one more interesting part of life -
one that anyone can easily explore and delight in. By Lillian
Jones.
Developing
an Unschooling Non-Curriculum - Math
Unschoolers have a distinct math non-curriculum. We know what
basic skills our children will need to master. By Heather Madrone.
A
Few Words About Unschooling Math
by Luz Shosie. Freedom to choose: Fingers & toes, pattern
blocks, two by two, 4X4, narrow gauge, ruler, tape measure, scale,
model, ... About 1000 words to help you unschool math.
Homeschool Math
A comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents
and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary
grades, an extensive link list of games, a homeschool math curriculum
guide, interactive tutorials & quizzes, and teaching tips
articles. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead
of just mechanical memorization of rules.
Homeschool
Math Blog
My blog has thoughts about what math is, how to teach it, how
my daughter is learning it, good links/books etc., plus news
and updates from my HomeschoolMath.net website.
Homeschooling
High School Math
This page was written to provide an outline of the components
of traditional high school math and to provide reviews and links
to reviews of Algebra I textbooks in common use.
I Want
My Math Book!
Garry and I found it touching and a little funny that Morganne
could look on math as such a great treat. And, then, I felt a
little sad for all of the children who never know the excitement
Morganne is feeling about math. By Heather Madrone.
Let¨s play math!
Math is a game, playing with ideas. This blog is about learning, teaching, and just playing around with K-12 mathematics.
Measuring
Up
Our kids, no matter how charmingly encouraged, showed little
interest in determining how many paper clips could be lined up
end to end across a desk top or how many teaspoons it took to
equal the length of the piano bench. Instead what caught their
fancy was James Thurber's Many Moons. By Rebecca Rupp, HEM 5/6
03
Rethinking
Midschool/High School Math
What official guidance are you given for teaching math? Often,
none. In the absence of specific directions, many homeschooling
families pursue what I call School Math. From the Older Kids
column, by Cafi Cohen, HEM
Sneaky
Ways to Teach Your Child Math
As parents, we know that math skills are essential and invade
every aspect of our daily lives. It is this pervasiveness that
allows us to turn the tables on our own children and use daily
life to teach math. Better yet, our children may not even realize
they're learning!
A
Travel Excursion of the Mind
Preaching future utility is futility-it is a wrong-headed approach.
Teach them (yes, unschoolers, I'm using the forbidden "
T" word) that mathematics is one of the most beautiful creations
of the human spirit. By David Albert.
Issues In Math
Education
Gender Equity
in Math
Boys tend to solve math problems using invented strategies; girls
tend to use concrete strategies. What does this mean? How to
take care the both your boys and girls learn to think mathematically
well.
Mathematically
Correct
Mathematics achievement in America is far below what we would
like it to be. Recent " reform " efforts only aggravate
the problem. As a result, our children have less and less exposure
to rigorous, content-rich mathematics.
Parrot
Math
In the field of children's learning of arithmetic, there is significant
research to show that the force-feeding of computational procedures
is harmful. By Thomas C. O'Brien.
Online Forums
Forums at
Math Goodies
Share your homeschooling math ideas on this combination message
board and email list.
Living
Math Forum
Run by Julie Brennan of San Diego, CA, she loves math and really
enjoys helping others see the beauty and joy of utilizing math
concepts.
Math Forum @ Drexel
We are teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents
using the power of the Web to learn math and improve math education.
Math Teachers
ChatBoard
This forum is dedicated to discussions among math educators.
Some of the posts seem to be from homeschooling parents. Lots
of good tips about getting math across to kids, if you just want
to browse.
Reading Math
Living Math
In teaching my own children, tutoring and furthering my own self
education, I've found that math history and literature humanizes
math, makes it come alive. By Julie Brennan, CPA and homeschooling
parent.
Mathematical
Tale Winds
Using stories to teach K-8 math concepts.
Read Any
Good Math Lately?
Throughout our homeschooling journey, I have always found new
and exciting ways of learning the traditional subjects taught
in school. by Holly Furgason.
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