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Mathematics Curriculum Review Series: Teaching Textbooks

/ Algebra, curriculum, K-6 Math

Do you want a clas­sic math­e­mat­ics text­book cre­at­ed with the home school fam­i­ly in mind?  How about a text­book that uti­lizes online and soft­ware pro­grams that track stu­den­t’s progress?  Are you intim­i­dat­ed by hav­ing to cor­rect and explain math­e­mat­ics con­cepts to your child?  Then Teach­ing Text­books may be the math pro­gram for you.  Teach­ing Textbooks […]

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Why Reason?

/ Mission, Outside the Box, QA

  ‘The heart has its rea­sons, which rea­son knows not of’    Pas­cal   Why Rea­son?  If Pas­cal is cor­rect, and if cul­ture tells us to fol­low our hearts, then why should we rea­son or learn log­ic or order?  Did you know that the first philoso­phers were math­e­mati­cians? That’s because their aim was­n’t math, but the

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Take an inside look at Scio Membership this summer!

/ Announcement

Mem­ber­ship at Scio Acad­e­my opens the door for you to take com­mand of your edu­ca­tion while get­ting the help that you need.   To gear up for the fall, Scio has two great course options:  Arith­metic Course : A course focused on assess­ing a stu­den­t’s basic arith­metic abil­i­ty to show readi­ness for pre­al­ge­bra.  Are you curious

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Merry & Memorable Math

/ K-6 Math

Let’s face it.  Most math cur­ric­u­la out there is work­sheet based.  It goes some­thing like this:  read les­son, prac­tice con­cepts from les­son, prac­tice review prob­lems from pre­vi­ous les­son, done.  Every­day it’s the same sto­ry. I’m not con­demn­ing math pro­grams that require read­ing, and I’m cer­tain­ly not telling you to ignore the work­sheets.  How else do you

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