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I'm just full of questions today. 
Can someone who keeps one, elaborate on a math journal? (Leonie?  ) Is it something you all keep - separately or together? - and what kinds of things go in it? I'm desparate to make math more fun this year and since we all love reading and writing, maybe there is a way to combine the two (or I guess that would be three).
Thanks for any tips!
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I personally don't keep a maths journal - although that IS a good idea! Hmm.
My kids do maths journaling.
In the past, they had a separate journal for maths. At present, they either write in the maths section of their notebooks or write in their general journals.
What sorts of things do they write about?
Explanations of processes. Topics they have looked at recently - and examples, perhaps. Budgets. Questions. Personal reflections on maths. Lists and wishlists. Their own problems - for mum and dad or siblings to solve. Diagrams to help them remember something. Copywork ( copy out the example from th book/workbook/Kumon sheet).
Math journals
links to maths journals
My older sons used to do maths journals on Fridays. The current ones homeschooling only do maths journaling on an ad hoc basis - every now and then. 
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Hi Dawn!
I was working on a post for this and I put it up today...
Math Journaling
We have been math journaling for a few years now and we love it...we have gotten more creative as we have gone along. We use it as a springboard from the math world into real life. Who says math has to be boooring??
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My girlfriend is doing her thesis on math journals. She says students enjoy them better when they are introduced slowly (only a few times a week) and at the beginning of the school year.
Hope this helps. I am intrigued by them myself. Maybe I would have liked math if we could have journaled in class! 
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Great blog post! Thank you for sharing - and I am with you - maths shouldn't be boring! I know I enjoyed doing some Kumon maths sheets ( factorization) last night. 
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Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts and links on math journals! This has definitely clicked with me, because, unfortunately I'm one of those people who can't get into math.  I don't want to spread that to my boys - they seem to like math and I want to make it more creative and fun for them.
I'm going to mine this forum for more living math ideas!
Would you say I could stick with Saxon (I don't really want to but I feel I need to) and liven it up with living math books and keeping math journals - and have time for it all?
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Dawn wrote:
| Would you say I could stick with Saxon (I don't really want to but I feel I need to) and liven it up with living math books and keeping math journals - and have time for it all? |
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That is the kind of thing we have done.
Used a maths text/workbook as a spine and added in our maths activities and journals.
Some years, the activities and journals were done on Fridays.
Some years we took a week about approach - one week on texts, one week on other maths.
The last couple of years we do blocks - unschooling blocks and maths " as it comes up", maths activities/journal blocks and blocks of time when we work out of a maths book.
It all gets done in the end - with some skipping around in texts.
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BTW Dawn, just wanted to let you know that your query on maths journals prompted us to get right back into our maths journaling yesterday. I blogged about our journaling on metacognition.
Thank you!
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Leonie, I enjoyed your post! And thank you for sharing that link - I'm going to drink a bit more coffee and then explore!
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Dawn wrote:
| Leonie, I enjoyed your post! And thank you for sharing that link - I'm going to drink a bit more coffee and then explore! |
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The link is cool isn't it - lots of information!
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Ive been off for a while due to some amazing morning sickness so im catching up on old posts.
I was planning on using a math journal with dd since her handwriting and stamina is not up to workbook work.
Here is a link to a list of cute ideas for math journal questions including a lot of literature linked ones.
http://www.calicocookie.com/mathjournal.html
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Thank you -we have been getting more into our maths journals these last couple of weeks.
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Thanks so much! I've wanted to do this with our hands on daughter who hates math for awhile, and this gives me some ideas!
We use Saxon with all of the kids, as in the beginning of hsing, my dh asked me to pick ONE math curriculum and stick with it through the years, but he didn't care if I switched everything else.
It's the only thing he's ever asked of me regarding hsing and curriculum, so I certainly understood his wanting them not to have any math gaps, etc.
We chose Saxon, and I'm happy. I'm also happy that he asked me not to switch, because I feel much consistency in math, and that's a blessing.
I have three different learners (one visual, one auditory, and one kinesthetic), and we've been able to adapt Saxon to every one of them.
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TracyQ wrote:
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Tracy, that's our exact same experience! We use Saxon every year and switch everything else around. I am thinking math this year will be daily Saxon plus math journals filled with projects, activities, games, narrations of great math literature, etc.
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Dawn,
I'd love to do that this year too! We'll see how much *extra* we can get done.
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Math Journal page
I found this form while researching and putting together my homeschool planners for each child this year. I thought of this thread, so wanted to share it here.
I love this website for forms for my planners. The main page is Chase Forms
Hope these help!
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