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Magic Math! (And more ideas for addition fact practice)
April 8, 2013
Here is an idea for a FUN way to spice up addition fact practice. We called it "magic math!" Gresham has been working on larger addition facts, and at this…
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Exploring Volume in First Grade Math
February 20, 2013
This year, Gresham is doing first grade math with Making Math Meaningful. We have finally landed on MMM after sampling several math programs. (If you're interested, I wrote a comparison…
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Lego Math: How Many Legos Does it Weigh?
February 5, 2013
Yesterday Gresham and I had so much fun with LEGO®'s and math! We made a balance using a clothes hanger (I saw the idea on Kids Activities Blog), but instead…
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Christmas Tree Math
November 28, 2012
We made homeschooling a little more festive this week with some Christmas tree math! Gresham (1st grade) is working on learning his addition facts, so I made 6 trees with…
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First Grade Math: Curriculum Comparison
October 30, 2012
So, I'm homeschooling my second first grader (Did that make sense? My second son has reached first grade) and we're on our FOURTH math curriculum. Actually, our curriculum-hopping spanned second…
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Math Activity: Candy Survey and Graph
September 18, 2012
Facebook can be such a useful tool for homeschooling! Last week, Gresham's math curriculum, Making Math Meaningful from Cornerstone Curriculum, introduced the concept of a bar graph. I decided to…
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Math Activities: Comparisons
February 23, 2012
Our computer is back! Hooray! Not much time for writing at the moment, but I wanted to post a couple of quick math ideas for the kindergarten/first grade crowd. Gresham…
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Science and Math Activity: Measuring the Length of Sea Animals
November 1, 2011
This year in science, Aidan and I are studying Apologia's Exploring Creation with Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day. We love Apologia science! So far, we have learned about whales,…
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Hot Wheels Math
October 12, 2011
Gresham was thrilled when I announced that we were going to do math with hot wheels cars! This activity was similar to our counting scavenger hunt, but covered the skill…
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Elementary Math Bar Graph Activity
October 21, 2010
I have found that one of the best ways to get Aidan engaged in math is to put away the worksheets and do something that relates to real life. He…
