Geometry vs. Geometry
Geometry is not my favorite subject. With the exception of proofs, I confess to finding Geometry rather boring. It seems to be common for people to prefer either Geometry or Algebra, but I’m beginning to challenge this perception. Let us reason together: Students in Math Masters are encouraged to learn difficult and beautiful truths using
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Creating Independent Learners
I realized this week that I’ve been teaching with Scio Academy students for 6 years. That’s a good long haul. While I’ve been homeschooling for more than 15 years, I started this Scio journey when my oldest son entered pre algebra. He has since graduated and I’m still learning how to lead my children into
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Flies on the Wall
What would I see if I was a fly on the wall of your homeschool? When my children were younger I used to wish that my husband could see what I did all day. I felt that only then would he truly understand how difficult my days could be. Now that my husband works from
What you Love
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. That’s how the idiom goes. This seems to be the career goal of every person in my generation. While the motivating factor for this saying may bring us to a place of finding work we love, it also ignores a very real
I don’t understand it…
My children are currently taking a semester long poetry course. In this course they are exploring the different types of poems, the history of these types, and practicing the types. I remember in high school having a literature course which spent a few weeks exploring poetry. I hated it. I didn’t understand how to write
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Math Challenge
It’s math challenge time! Engaging in riddles and games is a common past time and a rewarding one. When we try to solve a riddle or play a strategy game we stretch our minds in the same way that my Pre algebra students learn to stretch theirs. In this, our minds grow and we are
A Challenge
It’s February. Which means that we are or soon may be fighting off the winter doldrums. Part of the struggle with the doldrums is a sense of purposelessness. The temptation is to ask questions like: Why are we studying these polynomials anyway? Who needs to learn about matrices? When even am I going to use
Modern States
Over Christmas break I studied pre calculus. While I taught pre calculus last year and continue to help students in this course, there is always more to learn. I decided to study pre calculus for two main reasons: I am a student and I am a teacher. First, I am a student. I want to
Check your Pizza Cutting Habits
Before Christmas, I asked my Pre algebra students why we cut our pies and pizzas into 8 slices. While there is the occasional rebel slicing the pies into 6 slices and some pizzas into 12 slices, the vast majority of us seem to favor 8. Is it because we all love the number 8? What’s
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