How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Time and Money Lessons

Posted in Math on October 25, 2016

This is the fourth installment of Education Tools! How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Time and Money Lessons. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Children to Tell Time and Count Money Alright! First off is telling time. Teaching time with manipulatives The best tool for teaching time, of course, is a clock. Read More »

How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Measurement and Fractions

Posted in Math on October 24, 2016

This is the third installment of Education Tools! How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Measurement and Fractions Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Children to Understand Measurements and Fractions When teaching a child measurement, nothing can beat good old-fashioned rulers and yard sticks. Try to collect a few different Read More »

How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Basic Operations

Posted in Math on October 18, 2016

This is the first post in a series of posts about using math manipulatives. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Teaching Adding, Subtracting, Multiplication and Division To introduce a child to counting and single-digit addition and subtraction with manipulatives, begin with a large quantity of small items you probably have lying around the house. Pennies, beans, beads, Read More »

How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Geometry

Posted in Math on October 18, 2016

This is my second post on math manipulatives. The previous post covered basic operations. In this article, I'm going to cover geometry. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Shapes and Geometric Concepts Tangrams These ancient Chinese puzzles help children to both visualize and analyze the spatial relationship of geometric shapes. They also Read More »

My 16-Year-Old's Response To Hillary Versus Trump On Homeschooling

Posted in Homeschooling on October 18, 2016
Tags: Opinion, Politics

With the 2016 presidential election in full swing, I've been encouraging as much political discussion in our house as I can. I've done my best to be as objective as possible and really encourage research, fact checks, and critical thinking. My oldest son is particularly intuitive and within a week of political discussion, he asked about Read More »