Maths has historically been a huge problem in our house. With a son who just gets it and two daughters who just don’t I have the humbling experience of coming to the conclusion I am a naff teacher!
A year or so ago I took the girls off their curriculum and gave ‘living maths’ a try. Living maths refers to hands on practical and applicable maths. The girls did well and enjoyed it. They lost their fear of maths and for a time it was just the right approach for us. This post contains all the maths we did during that time.
Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Dumping the Curriculum (at least for a while)
Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Number Bonds
Helping a Struggling Math Student: Relationships between the number bonds
Helping a Struggling Math Student: Two Step Number Bond Problems
Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Pascal’s Triangle, Magic Triangles & Number Bond Games
Helping a Struggling Maths Student: What’s the point?
Helping a Struggling Math Student: Introducing Place Value
Helping a Struggling Math Student: Creating their own Number and Place Value Systems
Helping a Struggling Math Student: Utilising a foreign number system with a base 4
Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Learning Without a Curriculum and Using a Maths Informationary
Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Investigating Quadrilaterals
Helping a Struggling Maths Student: Investigating Quadrilaterals Part 2
Maths at the Manor – Percentages and piecharts
Feudalism in the MiddleAges and the Four Alls -Percentages and proportions
Unmuddling Maths – Viking Rune Stones and Probability Part One
Unmuddling Maths – Viking Rune Stones and Probability Part Two
Exploring Angles and Triangles Viking Style!
Making an Aged Viking Map – And turning it into a co-ordinate graph
Unmuddling Maths: Co-ordinate Graphs – also finding perimeter and area of irregular shape
I love your math posts! I always thought that living math was a literature based math and that hands on math was, well hands on. It doesn’t matter as I like them both!
Thanks Phyllis!