Posts Tagged ‘Math’
My newest school planning helpers
I just love going to my local used home school store. The woman that runs it is a walking home school catalog. Her knowledge of all the different curricula is [...]
Book Review: Beyond Numbers
I bought this book a year or so ago and wanted to give a review of it. Actually it will be more of a "why I like this book" kind of post. Beyond Numbers: A [...]
First day excitement–or the lack thereof (and cool math revelations!!)
We started back to school today. We go year-round and will finish up next July. My Princess S was terribly excited about the whole thing. Today we covered [...]
Make your own math manipulatives
It's fun and easy to make your own math manipulatives. There's no need to invest lots of money in these fun math helps. You can whip lots of these up in an [...]
Standards of Evaluation for Arithmetic Books
We use Ray's Arithmetic at our house and I love it. We started with it (except for a little trial of Saxon a year ago), so dd doesn't know anything else. I [...]
place value
I am planning my lessons for next week. This takes quite a bit of time, even for my young ones. But it is a total labor of love. So my arithmetic lesson this [...]
Rose’s Guide: elementary arithmetic
This is strictly my own interpretation of how to go through this section (which begins on p.231). It was authored by James Kilkenney. Rabbit trail here: James [...]
Biblical principles of mathematics
Mathematics is one of my favorite subjects to discover using the Biblical Principle Approach to education. It reveals God's character and nature in such an [...]
Abigail and arithmetic
We are full steam ahead in our study of Abigail. As we go through the book we are gleaning principles and learning about colonial life and character. The [...]
