Life of Fred: Dogs Revision Booklet {Free Download}

I have created Life of Fred: Dogs revision booklet. My focal topics for Life of Fred: Dogs were Doubles and Functions. The revision booklet contains lots of activities for learning doubles and understanding functions. I always keep my revision booklets simple and very easy. I want to know they understand the concept, rather than stretching…

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Life of Fred: Butterflies Review Booklet – Free Printable!

About nine months ago, Gary got me Publisher, to fulfil my desire to create my own note pages.  The reason I wanted to do this was two-fold.  Firstly, I wanted to create pages which were very specific to what we were learning.  Secondly, I wanted to be able to share something with you, my readers,…

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Five Maths Baggies: Mathematical Activities for Quiet Time

My younger two girls are not quite the readers their older brother and sisters were at their age.  The older ones would have happily read for an hour during their quiet time each day and complain when it ended.  The younger ones manage about half an hour before they start to get the wriggles.  I…

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Living Maths Resources for Fun Homeschool Maths: Maths Quest – The Museum of Mysteries

You all know how much I now enjoy teaching maths, especially since the addition of Life of Fred and the subtraction of traditional curriculum.  One of my favourite things to do is shop Amazon for fun living maths resources with which to fill our day.  Once a month or so, I am going to share…

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Homeschool Living Maths – Life of Fred: Butterflies

 Learning Maths with Life of Fred: Butterflies The girls are still enjoying our hands on approach to maths.  We have just finished learning maths with Life of Fred: Butterflies.  This is book two in the Life of Fred Series, (which can be bought in the UK here) learning lots of new maths concepts.  But first…

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Archimedes {Mathematician Study}

The first mathematician study we covered was Archimedes. Archimedes was a well known mathematician and inventor, alive during 287-212 BC in Ancient Greece. Well known for the Archimedes’ Principle and the Archimedes’ Screw, he was most interested in catoptrics, mechanics and pure maths. Archimedes Resources First, we learnt all about Archimedes by first reading the…

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Maths Investigations using Penrose, the Mathematical Cat: Investigating Polygons

I have written before about our change to a living maths approach using Life of Fred as our backbone, and I think I might have mentioned wanting to spend some of our time investigating a certain aspect of numbers in greater depth.  I have a few maths based books, but Penrose the cat is by…

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Mathematician Study: Fibonacci and his numbers

  When I started planning for our study into Fibonacci, I really struggled.  Not with the maths of his number sequence, but with the why's of teaching them.  The whole rabbit problem seemed convoluted fantasy, based on assumptions.  Maths, in the main, isn't based on assumptions but fact.  I read our selection of books before…

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Investigating Quadrilaterals: Angles and Tessellations

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…

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