mom-thoughts

Making math sticky for kids can be a challenge. Bringing the sometimes dry concepts into the real world in different ways cement those concepts forever in your child’s brain. If

There is an awful lot of debate about spiral versus mastery methods of math education these days. There is new math, common core math. There are manipulatives, worksheets, computer games

Fun is important when you homeschool. You are with your kids 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you can have fun and enjoy your shared life, any

Yes, you kids may be able to complete the math worksheets and ace the math tests, but are they really understanding what is going on, or are they simply memorizing

My kids fell in love with the magic of origami after watching a documentary called Between the Folds (available on Amazon Prime). More specifically, Erik Demaine captured their imaginations, inspired

Prof. N J Wildberger at the University of New South Wales in Australia is another of the great mathematicians who can explain math in a fundamentally universal way, like Vi

In the spirit of Horrible Histories, the history written for kids and humor-enabled adults, Murderous Maths are a set of books that explain various aspects of math to children ages

Most of us who homeschool, and perhaps even more who don’t, are greatly concerned over the emergence of common core math. Our first thought is to bury our head under