I continue to be impressed by the materials Prufrock Press sends me for review.  Believe me, if I didn’t like something, I wouldn’t post about it!  And if I don’t actually use it in my homeschool, I won’t post about it either! Hands-On Geometry is a book we used in our school once a week [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]