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Posted: Oct 01 2005 at 4:53pm | IP Logged Quote juliecinci
Living Math is a great website for those who want to make math a natural part of the homeschool.. I just got off the phone with Julie (site owner) and found her advice so sound! She reminds me of Brave Writer but for math.

One of the resources that we talked about is Murderous Maths. I'm having a hard time making the URL come up on my computer, but it should work. Here's a link to Fun Books which carries Murderous Maths in their math section. (Great book ordering company, by the way.)

I was inspired by a few of her principles and thought I'd share them here:

1. Layer your maths. Find lots of ways to engage the topic: games, videos, word problems, real life, pages in a text book, literature and so on.

2. Take risks. Not knowing how to solve a problem should not mean giving up. It should mean attempting to solve it... for a long time. Try all kinds of ideas and you might hit on the right one or learn about all the ones that didn't work.

3. Literature for math ought to be the foundation for living math. So read her list of books that help with the math concepts. Even if your kids are older, they can whip through the picture books etc. to get a grasp of what the concepts are outside of workbooks and textbooks.

4. Take a placement test online to figure out where your kids' gaps are and only teach to those. If you child is already successful at fractions in every way but division, why use an entire text book of fractions? Just focus on division.

5. Keep a check register of your child's allowance where he keeps a running balance of the money he has and what he spends.

These were a few ideas that really spoke to me. Hope they help you too!

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Posted: Oct 01 2005 at 5:02pm | IP Logged Quote tovlo4801
Thank you. I love that site. Someone mentioned it somewhere earlier this year and I check in there frequently now.

Just last week we were at the library flipping between her list of math books and the library catalog finding some good math books to read. I thought there was plenty to choose from for my oldest (12). I am so looking forward to our next school year with Living Math and Bravewriter ideas.

Where do you find placement tests to guage the gaps?
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Posted: Oct 03 2005 at 9:26am | IP Logged Quote Marybeth
Thanks so much for sharing all of this! I am going to print off several of her booklists to take the library. I am going to need a bigger binder for all the booklists I have!

God bless,

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Posted: Oct 03 2005 at 2:05pm | IP Logged Quote tovlo4801
Has anyone done the Living Math History Course? What did you think? It looks fabulous.
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Posted: Oct 05 2005 at 5:14pm | IP Logged Quote Anne Marie M
I agree, Richelle - I like the two year schedule! I'd jump in now if I thought I could do it justice

Maybe next year! In the meantime, I, too, would like to hear if anyone has used it.

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Posted: Oct 08 2005 at 8:17pm | IP Logged Quote chicken lady
I myself find this groups Yahoo group so helpful. I had no idea of the resources out there, I am interested in these "online" placement tests. Can anyone recommend one?
The Living History Math course sounds wonderful.

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