Teaching Math

I Love Teaching Math
The Joy of Teaching Math
Math has always been easy for me but it wasn't until I started taking classes to get my teaching certificate that I came to truly love math. Both my mom and dad loved to play card and board games. They taught my sister and me many mathematical concepts while playing these games without even realizing it. Puzzles and patterns, statistics and probability were daily conversations. Then came school. Math was nothing but numbers written on paper. Easy to do but very boring and seemingly unrelated...

Free Math Resources for Homeschoolers and Everyone
Free Resources For Teaching Math
Math - Just the word used to make my daughter run and hide, now she loves it! What turned her around was finding the right math resources for her learning style. Here you will link to over 35 free math webpages offering a variety of different math games, math worksheets, math activities and ideas. They are segmented by the age recommended by the site, although as homeschoolers, we don't always follow those guidelines. This page is interactive, so please add your favorite math resources, if t...

Algebra for Homeschoolers
Teaching and Learning High School Algebra for Homeschoolers
Algebra is fun, visual, hands-on and easy to understand. That may not have been they way you were taught but this is what I learned when I began relearning algebra with my unschooler. Algebra is just combining unknown numbers that can be represented by blocks such as Cuisenaire Rods. Algebra equations can seem complicated at first but when taken step by step, using colorful, wooden blocks, Algebra becomes a delightful math game that can be easily understood and mastered. How can you make le...

Counting on Cupcakes
Learning Math with Wooden Play Food Cupcakes
We all know that Melissa and Doug offer exceptional wooden toys that our kids love so I just know you are going to love these beautifully crafted wooden cupcakes with the plastic frosting and dry-erase decorative markers. What you may not realize are all the ways that these cupcakes can be used to help your child understand mathematical concepts. From counting cupcakes to writing number words, adding and subtracting to creating cupcake patterns, there is more to the Melissa and Doug Cupcakes...

Telling Time with an Analog Clock
Math with an Analog Clock
Digital clocks are everywhere. How do you teach you children to read analog clocks? Are your children learning quarter of and quarter after? Does clockwise mean anything to them? Analog clocks are amazing devices for teaching your children math. Don't be lured by the initial ease of learning digital clocks. There are math concepts that can be taught using an analog clock that just aren't understood well otherwise. We will be looking at learning to tell time, of course, but we will also be l...

Gallon Man Teaches Liquid Measurement
Let's Create a Gallon Man
Measuring liquids is one of the concepts taught in elementary school. For children who have not had experience with measuring in gallons, quarts, pints and cups, this can be a difficult concept to grasp. That's where Gallon Man and a Sensory Table some in. This article will describe artistic and hands-on activities that will help children understand liquid measurement is ways that they will never forget. These activities will assure that children retain and remember how to measure liquids whe...

Is This Really Mathematics?
Resources for Teaching Math
MATH!!! Ooooh ... scared you, didn't I? Many of us have uneasy recollections of math drills from our school days. Homeschooling moms quail before the math task, and students dread the dreary drill. But is that all there is to math? In fact ... is that really math at all? What if schools taught other subjects the same way they teach math? Let's have a look ...

100th Day of School
Activities for the 100th Day of School
Young children are learning to count and measure time. One of the ways we can help them is by keeping track of the days that pass from the first day of school until we reach the magic number 100. Here you will find activities for learning to count to 100 as well as 100th day of school celebration ideas. Keep track of the number of days of school during calendar time. Daily practice in counting will help children understand the meaning of 100. Photo Credit: Designer Cutouts 100th Day Product...

Teaching Math with a Wolf Theme
Wolf Math
The number of wolves in the world decreased to the point of near extinction but those numbers recently have been increasing. People's interest in wolves has increased as well. Today we will be discussing how we can teach math as part of a wolf unit study. We will be learning to count wolves, look for patterns in numbers of wolves, add and subtract wolves. There are classic logic puzzles involving wolves. We will be graphing wolf populations, measuring in wolf units and playing games with a w...