September 20th, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk
I came across a new way to practice your times tables, based on a honeycomb shape with all the different products (using factors from 2 to 9) in it: All the numbers (products) have a unique answer (factors), except for the shaded middle row which have 2 answers apiece. So the student ‘sweeping’ the grid [...]
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September 19th, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk
Have you heard about this sale? Scholastic is having a sale on 800+ of their titles, all PDF books to be downloaded for $1. You can find the sale here. I ordered a bunch over the weekend, including titles like: Easy Make and Learn Projects: Human Body (we’re doing Human Body this year) 25 wacky [...]
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September 14th, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk
The boys and I have been working our way through the simply fabulous list of “living math books” from Julie Brennen, who runs the LivingMathForum e-mail group. You can find the list of books, organized by topic (addition, fractions, geometry, etc.) here. And what is a “living book” you may ask? A “living” book is [...]
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August 29th, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk
Over the summer the boys and I have explored a variety of DVDs, including one we watched a couple weeks back and really enjoyed, called The Lion’s Share: A Tale of Halving Cake and Eating It, Too by Matthew McElligott. (There’s a picture book as well). I can’t do better than the summary on the [...]
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July 7th, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk
I’ve found several math apps the boys are enjoying, from creative games covering a wide variety of math topics (the oft- and deservedly-praised Rocket Math) to those focused on particular topics (like fractions, or telling time), to highly customizable flashcard drill (Flash to Pass free, Math Drills Lite), to those that use games to get [...]
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June 1st, 2011Posted by Risa Kawchuk
This morning the boys and I played a round of Contig Jr., which is a great game/activity for practicing math facts. You can find a printable game board here. The game involves rolling 3 dice, and using various mathematical operations to cover numbers on the game board (both pennies and dimes fit this job well). [...]
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