A few years ago, my husband and I tried to find a hobby that we enjoyed doing together. You’ve probably tried this too. Our children were getting older, old enough to leave home for an hour or so, and we wanted to find something that we liked doing together. One of our parenting goals is […]
Without diving into the history of curriculum changes, I’d like to address the common practice of searching for a new curriculum. Humans are cyclical. We have patterns that we follow and often homeschool parents follow the same patterns. When our child struggles to grasp the difficult concepts in algebra and higher-level math, we start searching
If it was easy, then it wouldn’t be worth doing. This is one of the sayings that you would hear in my household on any given day. Andrew Pudewa says something similar when he says, “If it’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing poorly first.” Anything worth doing is going to take a process
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If you spent this past February surfing the web or cruising the convention aisles searching for the perfect math curricula, then it might surprise you to hear me say that the book you choose is not the key to success in high school math. In fact, if you compare today’s math curricula with Ray’s algebra
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We’ve looked at the reasons to continue through algebra 2, but what other high school math classes are worth pursuing? The traditional high school mathematics course of study is: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Precalculus or Trigonometry. We’ve explored why our students should study through Algebra 2 at the very least. But what about
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