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Making Math Meaningful for Teens: Practical Homeschool Advice

Making Math Meaningful for Teens: Practical Homeschool Advice

Spending time with teens to make math relevant to them now can help them build strong math competencies to achieve success later. So how can parents engage their teens in math-focused activities that both can enjoy? Here are tips to help you capture your teen’s interest and make math meaningful in many ways, through encouragement, entertainment and empowerment.

Hands On Math Activity: Estimating Area

Hands On Math Activity: Estimating Area

Here’s a hands-on activity you can do with your child to directly apply the concept of area to the place she knows best – her house.

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8 Free Middle School Math Activities

8 Free Middle School Math Activities

What makes kids “get it” is bringing math to real life. Middle schoolers aren’t thinking about balancing a checkbook or figuring out miles per gallon on their vehicle, but we can help them make those connections. Taxes are at least a few years away, and most have mastered counting back change. Understanding the practical applications for Math practice today can help
students apply their learning into adulthood.

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How to Help Your Child Deal with Math Anxiety

How to Help Your Child Deal with Math Anxiety

Math anxiety is a negative emotional response that prevents people from being able to comprehend math or to do math problems. Essentially, it is an emotional problem. However, since it hampers a person’s ability to learn math and to solve math problems, it becomes a mental issue because people with it think they are incapable…

6 Fun Activities and Games for Teaching Math

6 Fun Activities and Games for Teaching Math

Pre-school and elementary school age children are eager to learn math skills at home with the right fun activities.  Beyond using conventional worksheets and flashcards, using math games that involve large motor skills is not only fun but will help reinfornce the math concepts you are trying to teach. Your children can jump and hop…

How to Use Life of Fred Math Books

How to Use Life of Fred Math Books

Life of Fred math books saved my homeschool! That may sound dramatic but it’s true. My oldest daughter and I struggled and struggled to find the right math curriculum. I’m embarrassed to tell you how many mistakes I made in this process. Some of those mistakes were sticking to a curriculum that wasn’t working for…

Free Minions Math Printables

Free Minions Math Printables

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10 Fun Activities for Teaching Math

10 Fun Activities for Teaching Math

Find the perfect math activity idea for you and your young learners. With these fun match activities for kids, you can establish basic math foundation in math at an early age. Numbers can become your kid’s best friend. And we’re sharing with you here some engaging ways to get you and your kids started. Math…

What to Do When Your Child Is Struggling With Math

What to Do When Your Child Is Struggling With Math

Many children, and even some parents, struggle with math, so don’t feel badly if this is a reality in your home. It’s nothing unheard of for the home educated and the school educated alike. Take a deep breath and know that you are not alone. Then try these 5 ways to help when your child…

6 Games for Teaching Math

6 Games for Teaching Math

  We all teach some subjects we don’t care much for, don’t we? Math happens to be my least favorite subject to teach. After all, I’m a musician, not a mathematician. Musicians count: “1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4.” Our idea of higher math is “1-2-3-4-5-6, 1-2-3-4-5-6.” In most subjects, I am an auditory learner, but in math, I…