Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my ten-part series titled “On Teaching Math”, I wrote about my journey from struggling math student to math teacher. In my more recent post “Midwinter Math Blues: Refreshing Your Math Routine”, I recommended reading math biographies and math…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! January often finds the mother-teacher, and her children, in the homeschool with the midwinter math blues, and these blues often lead to hours of searching for a new math curriculum. I’ve been in this place in many a January…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post, I discussed where I land in the modern Math Wars. If you haven’t read it, I do recommend you go back to it and the previous posts in the series. It’s not that I think…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post, I discussed my favorite ever math teaching discovery: The Living Number Line. It followed me from third grade, to fourth grade, and then to our homeschool. In today’s post, I want to discuss an issue…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post, I focused primarily on the use of math journals. We walked through some philosophy behind their use and some practical ideas for implementation. I hope to strike the same philosophical-practical balance in today’s post about…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! I ended my last post with some ideas for math journals. In this post, I want to go a bit more in-depth with the idea of math journals. I believe they can be an important part of math study…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post, I gave some practical advice for teaching math family-style in the homeschool. Whether you are ready to go all-in or are still testing the waters, I hope you will keep reading this series. My ultimate…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post I shared, based on my classroom experience, why I think communal, family-style math can work in the homeschool. Not only do I think it can “work”, I think it can be a source of shared…
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post, I clarified my approach to math lessons and shared why I think math can be a communal subject in the homeschool. In today’s post, I want to explain more about why I think that’s true….
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post I outlined how I took modern math textbooks and flipped them upside down, so they would be, in the end, right-side up. If you are totally confused, go back and read “On Teaching Math: Part…
