The first thing I wanted to do was have a look at angles. Although T11 has done lots of work with them, the girls have not. I showed them how to measure angles using a protractor. They practiced measuring the angles in different shapes. Once they were really comfortable with the basics, I asked them how they might go……
Category: Homeschool Maths – Living Maths
Exploring Quadrilaterals
This week’s math lessons focused on quadrilaterals, emphasizing understanding over memorization. The children explored properties, cube nets, and formulas for perimeter and area while engaging in hands-on activities like games and shape manipulation. This approach significantly boosted their confidence and comprehension in geometry, preparing them for future concepts.
Investigating Quadrilaterals
This week’s math lessons focused on exploring quadrilaterals through hands-on activities. The girls engaged in interactive experiences involving marshmallows, play dough, and geometric models, promoting observation and classification of shapes. By incorporating food and creative projects, the lessons successfully fostered a deeper understanding of both 2D and 3D geometric concepts.
Using a Maths Informationary
The post details a homeschooling approach to teaching math without a traditional curriculum, focusing on geometry to foster a deeper understanding of multiplication. Using a “maths informationary” instead of journals encourages hands-on learning and personal discovery. The aim is to help children build mathematical insights through exploration and innovative techniques.
Using a Foreign Number System (Base 4)
This session centered on using a base-4 number system to enhance children’s understanding of mathematical concepts and flexibility. Through hands-on activities, the children engaged with different number systems, working collaboratively to solve problems. Despite challenges, the experience fostered both mathematical skills and teamwork, emphasizing the value of exploratory learning in a creative environment.
Create Your Own Number and Place Value System
Inviting children to create their own number and place value systems fosters a deep understanding of math concepts. This hands-on activity reduces math anxiety by demystifying numbers, showing that they are flexible tools for representing values. As children design, test, and reflect on their systems, their confidence and conceptual grasp of mathematics significantly improve.
Introducing Place Value: Hands On Maths and Living Maths
There is a difference between doing maths… and truly understanding it. This week we began by Introducing Place Value in our homeschool using a far more hands on maths approach than I had before. The girls confidently insisted they understood. And to be fair, they can usually complete long addition, subtraction and multiplication correctly. But every so often, everything……
What’s the Point of Maths?
The post discusses the benefits of “Living Maths,” a hands-on approach to learning mathematics that emphasizes understanding patterns in real-life situations over traditional curriculum methods. The author shares their experience of moving away from formal teaching, leading to newfound confidence and engagement in their children’s mathematical abilities.
Practising Number Bonds Using Pascal’s Triangle
The author shares their experience of introducing Pascal’s triangle in a fun homeschool math lesson. They aimed to spark curiosity and playful exploration, leading students to discover patterns and improve mental arithmetic skills. Hands-on activities and games reinforced their learning, emphasizing the importance of engaging math practice in homeschooling.
Two Step Number Bonds Problems {Living Maths}
The author reflects on homeschooling strategies for teaching math, emphasizing the importance of understanding over rote memorization. By assessing girls’ abilities to apply number bonds in two-step problems, the author fosters confidence through hands-on learning. They advocate for visual methods and practical activities to make math accessible and less intimidating, ensuring emotional support during challenging tasks.
Teaching Number bonds
The post highlights the advantages of homeschooling in math, emphasizing the importance of time to foster understanding over speed. It showcases a lesson on number bonds, where a breakthrough moment occurs for Lillie, who traditionally struggles with math. The lesson uses tangible examples and tools to enhance comprehension and confidence.
Number Bonds: Hands-On Homeschool Maths
Curriculum-Free Maths: Helping Children Truly Understand Number Bonds Through Hands-On Learning This is the second post in our curriculum-free maths journey and is focused on Number Bonds. If you missed the beginning of our story, you can read the first post here. When I planned this lesson, my goal wasn’t for my children to recite number bonds as they……
Hands-On Maths: Transform Your Homeschool Approach
The author reflects on the challenges of homeschooling maths, particularly for their child Lillie, who struggled with the subject. After realizing that traditional methods weren’t effective, they shifted to a hands-on, curriculum-free approach. This shift fostered Lillie’s understanding and confidence, making maths enjoyable and more meaningful through exploration and play.
Maths at the Manor
Last week I mentioned our foray into living maths using the Domesday survey as our basis for learning about percentages. We used our handy-dandy papier-mache map (again-this is one of the best investments in time we have made!). Paper Mache Map The children built up our very own Manor, complete with a Keep: Our Manor Statistics……
Homeschool Living Maths: Probability
On our family holiday this year, the children came face to face with amusement arcades. Never having seen anything like it before, they were enamoured and very enthusiastic to spend our money in order to win more back. Needless to say we did not allow them. Until, that is, the last day. It was pouring with……