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 [...]

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 [...]

We are having SO much fun with this book!  A little break from the regular math schedule has turned out to include such exciting math and science that my kids are actually asking to do more. 
Here are some photos from one of this week’s investigations….
Cylinder structures – Using various sized cardboard tubes and [...]