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Mathematics Curriculum Review Series: Teaching Textbooks

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?

  ‘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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Merry & Memorable 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

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