Making Math Fun

Just because your child doesn’t easily makes sense of math now, doesn’t mean he’s doomed to fail as a future number cruncher.  There are plenty of kids, who struggle with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in their early years, and then something finally clicks, and they end up as successful accountants or actuaries. To ensure that your homeschooled student achieves success in the world of mathematics, don’t rely solely on memorization.  Having children memorize math facts without teaching them why the answer is correct often leads to future problems. Kids will be much more receptive to learning math if you … Continue reading

The Verbal Math Lesson

Math without pen and paper?  Surely you must be joking.  The very idea of a child solving math problems without a pencil is just ridiculous.  Or is it?  Imagine your child solving math problems and understanding math in a natural way without tears or even a pencil.  Michael Levin M.D. and Charan Langton M. S. show  you how to make that a reality. Book: The Verbal Math Lesson Level 1: Step-by-Step Math without Pencil or Paper By:  Michael Levin M.D. and Charan Langton M.S. Age Reccomendation:  4 to 7 years old. Where to Purchase:  Amazon Brief Description: By getting back to … Continue reading

Living Math

Math is used every day. Living math is an aptly put term for teaching math through the every day uses of math. Children are taught how to solve real life math problems using real life scenarios or hands on manipulatives or simply through play. Push the worksheets and textbooks aside and see the equations you solve daily. A child will learn to understand math when he sees the connection to the physical world around him. Real world math scenarios to consider: Doubling a recipe. Cutting a recipe in half. Calculating change before the cashier hands it back. How much money … Continue reading