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 […]
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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I have declared the summer of 2023 a summer of arithmetic! It’s about time to get ourselves back in the basics and review the foundation of our mathematics mastery. One of the most beautiful parts of the creation of the Lord is patterns, and those patterns are explored, although imperfectly, in the world of numbers.
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We come to the successful completion of another year. Many homeschoolers look out the window in May and dream of this day. The day to put away the pencils, shelve the books, and close the laptop. Although these next few weeks may signal the completion of an era, it is not the completion of learning.
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Have you ever connected the fact that a mathematics problem has the elements of a great story? What are the elements of a great story? Many would say that the only thing necessary for a great story is good characters and a clear problem. Well if math doesn’t have that, then I don’t know what
