I have a 10 year old boy who is doing Saxon 76. It takes 30 minutes for me to work with him on a lesson, working only the amount of problems I feel are necessary, as taking longer than this causes math burnout. Would using the D.I.V.E. CD help my son be more independent in his math time? Can you pick and choose which problems to use? Is it worth the $50? [Read more…]
Louisa
Math facts! Those stalwart, foundational facts that carry us through our lives, making us able compute things in our head at the grocery store and figure out the cost of a tank of gas. We need them! Our kids need them! Let’s give it our best to teach them to our kids, making their experiences with math much easier.
Mastering the math facts is one of the journeys and victories of childhood. The sooner they are learned to the “automatic-response” stage, the better! All math that follows requires the basic addition and mulitiplication facts. One mathematics professor at the university said that most of the problems his Calculus students misssed on tests were due to math fact errors, not because they didn’t know the formulas!
Here is an easy way to teach your children how to remember the “greater than” and “less than” symbols in their Math lesson!
First, draw one of the symbols, like this:
Now, make that symbol into a big fish’s mouth like this:
The fish has a BIG mouth that loves to eat the most he can get: the largest numbers. So the big, open part of the mouth always faces the largest number.
Grumpy attitudes? Kids complaining? You getting weary? Here’s a quick fix! I read my Gratitude Journal whenever I need a lift! A Gratitude Journal can just be a document on your desktop of your computer, that you write on every Sunday, for example. Or a list on your fridge or bulletin board that […]
