We had so much fun making an aged map from a photocopy of a photo of the paper mache map we made of Great Britain for our Vikings and Anglo-Saxons unit studies. In fact, making an aged map like this one can be done using a photocopy of any map you have on hand. Making…
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Homeschool Living Maths: Life of Fred – Farming
I am very slowly going through Life of Fred - Farming, and in deed all these books, which are to all intents and purposes too young for my eldest, and possibly for my youngest. But there is something about them that makes me stoically continue on. The girls do ACE maths everyday, so I am…
Homeschool Living Maths: Life of Fred – Edgewood
Yes, we are still using Life of Fred Maths, because the girls remember it! It's that simple. That said, as they are also doing the ACE program in its entirety, it also means they are getting stacks of maths practice. Something they are not too enamoured by! The girls are resolutely and uncompromisingly not fans…
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…
Homeschool Living Maths: Life of Fred – Dogs
Learning Maths with Life of Fred: Dogs Since I have learnt how to create my own work sheets, Life of Fred maths is getting even better 🙂 We have just finished Life of Fred: Dogs, book four in a ten book series of elementary maths, based on a little boy named Fred (you can buy…
Life of Fred: Cats Review Booklet – Free Printable!
Life of Fred: Cats Printable - Introduction My newest download, Life of Fred: Cats Printable review booklet, was created to be used alongside Life of Fred: Cats maths book. It can be used before your child starts Dogs to check his understanding of the main concepts taught in the Cats book, or in deed at…
Homeschool Living Maths – Life of Fred: Cats
Learning Maths with Life of Fred: Cats The more I do Life of Fred, the more confident I am about it working as an exclusive way to teach maths. The girls really enjoy maths, and I can see it working in ways that I didn't with the older ones. We have just finished Life of…
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,…
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…
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…
Life of Fred Maths as our Core Text
Living maths has always appealed to me, but I have never been confident enough to do it long term. I did, however, take Lillie off the traditional maths she was obviously struggling with (and very behind in) and we did living maths for a year together, starting from the very beginning. I was completely surprised…
Living Maths at Angelicscalliwags
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…
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…
Exploring Angles and Triangles {Living Maths}
Last week we learnt about Viking runes. We made a stave and found that every letter of the viking alphabet could be made using one of these as a guide. The straight lines, angles and triangles made me think that there could be a maths lesson in there somewhere. So, we spent the week exploring…
Homeschool Maths: Co-ordinate Graphs
This post will contain all the activities we did in our homeschool maths about Co-ordinate Graphs. First, I will introduce you to an excellent book about x,y co-ordinates. Next, I will show you how we used our aged map to answer some Viking themed co-ordinate graph questions. And lastly, I will describe how we used…