Last month at The Curriculum Choice, I wrote about logic/critical thinking resources from Prufrock Press.  They’re a fairly new company to me, but I’m becoming more and more impressed!
Most of you know we only do Saxon math three days a week.  The other two days of math time are spent doing living math, logic, critical [...]

Hubby and I celebrated Valentine’s Day on Saturday, so I decided to do a family Valentine’s Day celebration on Friday.  To get the excitement rolling, we ditched the math books and used little sweethearts to create graphs and find the mean, median and mode of candy that I gave them.

We spent much of the afternoon [...]

Anyone remember Circumference = 3.1416 x diameter?  We had such a wonderful math lesson to understand this yesterday.  The lesson was inspired from Family Math, pg. 97.

Taking several sized lids, I asked the kiddos to trace five different lids on a piece of plain legal-sized paper.  Using a centimeter tape measure, I asked them to [...]

I meant to put this post up before Christmas break – oops!
I hope you aren’t getting bored with all the fun math we’ve been doing from Hardhatting in a Geo-World.  I just can’t help sharing what has been a GREAT math & science unit!  If you are getting bored, you’ll be glad to know this [...]

Our “math break” continues to bring lively and rich lessons!  One of the projects from Hardhatting in a Geo-World concerned bridge construction.  We had to make six different bridges and test their strength.

After completing the activity and filling in the chart provided, I had the kiddos show their findings with homemade graphs.

The book talked a [...]