As a mom of 7 children, I have had to teach a gamut of math levels at one time. One moment I might be doing preschool math and then the next Algebra 1. Oh my poor mom brain! It didn’t handle that transition between levels well. 🙂 Or another issue I ran in to was […]
5 Reasons Teaching Textbooks is Awesome for Large Families
When you’re homeschooling, you find that certain subjects come easy to teach and others challenge you as the teacher. Math is that subject for me. As a mom of 7 children, I have struggled with finding a math routine that works for us. With my older children, I made the mistake of switching math curriculum […]
Ways to Make Math More Fun for Kids
If you ask educators (or kids) which subject yields the most frustration or elicits the most sighs, chances are math is the one that ranks the highest. It is a subject that can cause a great deal of stress for people. Sometimes, kids can have so much stress associated with math that they shut down […]
Our Kindergarten Calendar Journal
Honestly, I have balked at calendar time in the past. Yes, we have hung up calendars and practiced the days of the week and months of the year, but that was it. No coins to count the days, no tally marks, no straws in containers. I just didn’t have the space to place all those […]
Math on my Mind
Math and I never were friends. In fact, math scared me. I wrote about my math feelings a couple months ago. I don’t want my kids to feel the same way I felt about math. I want my kids to feel comfortable and maybe even a little excited to do math. So I’ve been trying […]
