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[...] groups and email lists I frequent, the great debates rage over “Should I use this math curriculum or that one?” Saxon, Math-U-See, Life of Fred, Common Core, not Common Core, lots of [...]

[...] I was a college math major who does logic puzzles for fun, and I’m homeschooling a 13-year-old daughter who, until about a year ago, cried at the mention of the subject. Then there’s the [...]

[...] part of our lives. Is it any surprise, then, that they’re a major part of our 13-year-old daughter’s homeschooling experience as well? Here’s the thing. There are a [...]

[...] there’s the other side of the coin: Maybe you’ve never been confident in your own math skills, so you’re having trouble knowing what your own children know (or don’t know). It& [...]

[...] find fun and engaging ways for your older students to learn math.   Learning the Math Basics One of the problems that can come up with older kids and their frustrations with math is [...]

More than any other question in the dozens of homeschooling Facebook groups and email lists I frequent, the great debates rage over “Should I us [...]

[...] fundamentals like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well some basic building block rules of math, working through the harder stuff will be easier and more fun. Make it [...]

Let’s face it, homeschoolers don’t want to hang out at home all the time. Most of us want to get out into the real world with our kids and [...]

[...] kids love seeing how quickly they can come up with the right answers. There are also many fun board games that my children have enjoyed that are not only fun but help with essential math [...]

[...] , and eminently more stressful.  One game our kids love is what we call, “The Flash Card Speed Game”.  In this game we take our flash cards, any combination that we choose, and [...]