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Learn Math Fast - A Math Program That Works! Natural Math In a Math 2.0 email group conversation about screencasting and tools like vZome, Brad Hansen-Smith of WholeMovement posed this question: Can you explain how using this virtual zome tool will give students a better understanding of polyhedra than actually building it from scratch for themselves? I have the same question about any virtual experience when compared to actual experience of doing something. Here was my reply: It is better to have both experiences. 1. 2. Step review works wonders with sharing. 3. The word “easy” here is the difference between thousands and millions doing the three activities I described above. I posed the same question to Katherine, my daughter, who added two items to the list: In virtual constructions, you can see infinity. I am adding another key item that came to mind: modularity.

How to Recognize a Successful Homeschool Math Program photo by Dan McCarthy (cc-by) After teaching co-op math classes for several years, I’ve become known as the local math maven. Upon meeting one of my children, fellow homeschoolers often say, “Oh, you’re Denise’s son/daughter? You must be really good at math.” The kids do their best to smile politely — and not to roll their eyes until the other person has turned away. I hear similar comments after teaching a math workshop: “Wow, your kids must love math!” In fact, one daughter expressed the depth of her youthful perfectionist angst by scribbling all over the cover of her Miquon math workbook: “I hate math! Translation: “If I can’t do it flawlessly the first time, then I don’t want to do it at all.” photo by Jason Bolonski (cc-by) Measuring Math Success I don’t judge my success as a math teacher by whether my students enjoy the subject. How, then, can I tell whether my kids are learning math? I talk to them. I ask questions like “How did you figure that out?” Thinking like a Mathematician

Math With Crewton Ramone's House of Math. Workboxes: Math At a conference last fall, I heard Kim Sutton mention something about using Zoo Pal Paper Plates to show parts and whole in math. She briefly described putting the parts in the ears and then showing the whole in the larger plate area. I couldn't find the zoo plates locally (Amazon link is below), but decided to try it with a plastic plate from a local one buck store. I've used this a couple different ways to explore the part-whole relationship in addition with my 5yo... With Dice: He tossed one die into each of the smaller compartments and put that many items (I used centimeter cubes) in each dish. With Pre-Written Number Sentences & Penguin Pieces: I wrote several number sentences. This could easily be replicated at home or school. Disclaimer: If you order from Amazon links on love2learn2day, all commissions go toward foster care through Grace and Hope at no additional cost to you.

10 Unusual Ways to Explore Math I confess. I never really liked math. I played the school game well so I received pretty good grades, but after I passed the test (even after receiving an A in most cases), those rules, theorems and facts didn’t stick around for very long. The problem was everything was drilled into me, or as I like to think now, drilled out of me. I’m so excited that now, as an adult, I have the time and opportunity to get to know math all over again with my kids. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to take subjects traditionally taught in schools, one subject each week, and show you how they can be looked at in unusual ways. Here’s a list of ten unusual ways to look at math. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Do you have any ideas about how math is connected in unusual ways to your world? Did you like this post? Photo Credit: fdecomite

2048 Math Game Join the numbers and get to the 2048 tile! New Game How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one! Note: The game on this site is the original version of 2048. Created by Gabriele Cirulli. Donate BTC 1Ec6onfsQmoP9kkL3zkpB6c5sA4PVcXU2i Math Fiction Math Fiction – All Ages Suitability comments on Main Reader Page ► = Our family's favorites Y = for the youngest kidsTo print, click on the printer icon at the bottom of the list The Dot and the Line, A Romance in Lower Mathematics z, Juster, Norton (VERY enjoyable and beautifully illustrated short story for young adults, author of Phantom Tollbooth) Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture x The Parrot's Theorem - accessible to HS x See comments at LMF posting about this book Flatland by Edward Abbott Conned Again, Watson z Bruce, Colin 2001 Sherlock Holmes style logic and math stories, up to date The Planiverse z Dewdney, A.K. 1984 Computer contact with a 2D world (modern version of Flatland) computer sci/fi theme, for upper middle school on up sci fi theme The Mathematical Magpie, Clifton Fadiman Fantasia Mathematica z Fadiman, Clifton, reprint of 1950's classic mathematical anthology Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll The Mathematical Tourist, Peterson, Ivan 1998 Math in nature, life

Checkbook Registers & More My oldest son and I have been talking for the last two days about how he is managing the money he has earned. Basically, we've been keeping up with it in our heads and have an "estimate" of what he has. Quiet frankly, this is no way to manage money from any perspective. So, he and I developed a little system today that he is going to start using. We worked out a register that we could record his deposits, withdrawals, savings and tithes. So, I made checkbooks, deposit slips and a check register. To begin, print the check register. If you decide that you want to use checks and deposit slips. Once you have stapled the tops, you'll want to create a back and slight cover to cover up the staples. You'll want to be able to fold the top over to just cover the staples...like a real checkbook. Now, we are going to sit down and start entering deposits and withdrawals into his checkbook.

Homeschool World - Articles - Arithmetic Fluency: Some Ideas for Achieving It - Practical Homeschooling Magazine Aside from teaching reading, the most frequent curriculum concern for many homeschoolers lies in teaching math. Like other skills, competent math skills require a solid foundation. The foundation for fluent math skills begins with counting skills. We have all seen children who struggle with math problems. Many times we are just not sure what those standards should look like or how we could easily measure them. The major variable we see in how soon and well children reach various math fluencies is the amount of instruction and practice each requires to reach the standard. Counting Skills There are many kinds of counting and children need to learn all of them to succeed at math. The ability to count backwards from 100 or from a number to a number becomes important when you teach subtraction. Using recursive counting patterns for each number is the easiest way to teach skip counting. Children can easily count at 300 counts per minute if they are fluent. Basic Arithmetic Operations

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