I recently read a friend’s blog about something she was using to practice math facts with her kids. It reminded me of something we already have that has been sitting around gathering dust – Math Shark! Math Shark’s website page says that it, “plays like a video game and teaches like electronic flash cards..”. While that’s true,…
I won’t mention any names (to protect the guilty), but somebody in our house is apparently doing some Medieval Torture math to go along with our Middle Ages study. I’ll confess, they are the dreaded word problems. (Doesn’t that just strike fear in your heart?) They’re kind of a combination “critical thinking/division” kind of nightmarish…
In an effort to try to think about something other than this seemingly never-ending rain that threatens to carry us away, I thought I would post my Works for Me Wednesday tip. Over our Christmas break, I took some time to make some self-checking answer cards for the number recognition game I’d made for my…
I’ve been trying to find some interesting, self-correcting activities that Nim can do with little supervision for times when I’m working one-on-one with the older kids. The other day, I made her some “checking cards” for the number matching game I made her a couple of weeks ago. The checking cards are simple. I just…
This weekend, I updated Josh and Megan’s math mini-offices. I think I’ve mentioned these in passing before, but I’ve never really posted about them. I made the first ones about two years ago and Josh and Megan have used them more than I thought they would. As a matter of fact, the main reason I…
It’s really neat homeschooling a preschooler again. This was always one of my favorite ages and now I get to drag out and dust off all those fun things that I did with Josh and Megan, do them with Nim and post about them here, since, um, I had no idea that such a thing…
