Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
Honest. Quirky. Real. Stereotype-smashing humor for homeschooling families.
Written by Tara Mitchell of Embark on the Journey. Do your kids dread practicing their math facts? Do they grumble when you break out the flash cards or the math workbooks? Try putting the teaching materials aside every now and again. There are many non-traditional ways our kids can practice counting, adding, subtracting and such. By incorporating movement, games, and even candy,… View Post
Written by Rachel of You’ve Got This. Vocabulary. We often think it applies to social studies and science, but some math units have a boatload of vocabulary. If kids don’t quite grasp this vocabulary, they won’t be successful. That’s where hands-on activities like this geometry vocabulary book come in handy. My oldest has just reached his geometry unit and is encountering… View Post
I am a bit math phobic. Even as a forty-something-year-old adult, I hate keeping score when playing games. When it comes time to tally the score, I can practically feel all the other players breathing down my neck, waiting to see who scored the most points. I can feel my mind going blank and the answers to simple addition flowing… View Post
Written by Rachel of You’ve Got This. Singing! Skip-Counting! Games! We’ve been doing it all year, and now it is time to put it into practice. We are jumping into a short multiplication review, and then a long, focused study on division. All that prep work to make sure my little guy knows his facts has all been in preparation for… View Post
I wonder if poor math ever gets its feelings hurt. I mean, when you ask kids their favorite subject, math usually isn’t the answer. (And when it is, people have a tendency to act as if math fans are weird.) When the question is, “What’s your least favorite subject?” that’s when poor math usually gets some recognition. Although it’s not… View Post