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Monday, 01 August 2022 / Published in Articles, Blog, Hey Mama, Hey Mama Monday, Real Science, Teaching Math

Hey Mama Monday: Creative Ways to Teach Math and Science, Mama

Creative science and math? I am not that creative. But I have found that science and math often go hand in hand. Kids love science experiments, and they often have elements of math included, such as amounts and percentages and time. And, math will often include scientific data such as graphs and estimates. Teaching these
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Barbori
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 / Published in Blog, Teaching Math

Activities for Pi Day That Make Math Fun

Use these activities for Pi Day in your homeschool this year, and your kids might have so much fun that they will ask to do them year after year. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 in classrooms and pizza parlors across the nation. Homeschooling is about making memories. Why not incorporate this fun holiday
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TOSBlog
Friday, 20 April 2012 / Published in Teaching Math

Thoughts on Math-Haters

You can’t hate a subject if your mind is engaged in it. So if a child says “I hate math,” I would try to figure out what his mind is doing. For example, at the lower arithmetic levels, curriculums often spend too much time with memorizing math facts. That is mindless and boring. So parents
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TOSBlog
Friday, 20 April 2012 / Published in Teaching Math

Teaching Math In The Homeschool

Few subjects cause knees to tremble and hearts to pound like that of mathematics. For many of us, the daily struggle through math class was as much a part of our routine as deciding what to wear. When we combine such negative personal experience with the requirement to educate our own children in this area,
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TOSBlog
Friday, 20 April 2012 / Published in Teaching Math

Focus on Helping Children Learn Math Facts

The time you will invest in setting up a math facts program will be well worth it. Number lines, charts, counters, and calculators are great tools to introduce addition, subtraction, and multiplication, but the bottom line is that fluency and knowing the correct answers to math facts is essential! If children do not memorize the
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TOSBlog
Friday, 20 April 2012 / Published in Teaching Math

Don’t Become a Casualty of the Math Wars

As I write these words, the civil war in Sri Lanka rages on, and we’ve been hearing reports of civilians trapped between the warring sides. Some, sadly, have died. There’s a lesson in that: You don’t have to be fighting in a war to become a casualty. So it is in math. Math? What’s math
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TOSBlog
Friday, 20 April 2012 / Published in Teaching Math

Bringing Word Problems to Life

Using Creation to Build a Solid Foundation Picture this. It’s a beautiful day so you decide to take your homeschool outdoors. You head outside for a nature walk. Is this just for physical education? It doesn’t have to be. No matter where you live around the globe, the study of creation provides a perfect opportunity
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TOSBlog
Friday, 20 April 2012 / Published in Teaching Math

Jeffery Thomas

TOS: Interest in Singapore Math is exploding in the homeschooling community Welcome to TOS, Jeffery! Can you tell us your background and how you became interested in the program? I understand that your wife, Dawn, is a Singapore native. Is that what sparked the interest, or were there other factors? JT: Our family lived in

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