In my last post I pointed out that teaching math has basically two components: math concepts and fact recall (or in other words: speed and accuracy when recalling math facts). Last week I discussed how I teach math concepts and listed some curriculum options that may work for you. This week I want to discuss…
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Just In Case…
Just in case you missed any of this month’s posts…I thought I’d provide links to each of them AND a link to a website where I had the privilege of being featured last week: Sonlight: A Literature-Based Approach to Learning One Dad’s Homeschooling Philosophy: Work! Six Workbooks That Work A Primer on Restaurant Etiquette It’s Funny…
Six Workbooks That Work
A couple of weeks ago I featured a post by a home-schooling friend who goes by the name of CaptiousNut. His blog Marginalizing Morons is advertised as “an online home-school curriculum, for adults!” He has frequently commented on my posts and in his comment on “Have You Ever Done This?” he mentioned that he finds workbooks…
How to Home-School: Traditional Methods
This is the first post of a six-part series on “Teaching Methods.” When we think of traditional methods of home-schooling, we are generally talking about the textbooks and workbooks that we all grew up with. There would be a textbook for each subject, maybe workbooks for reading comprehension or to work on specific math topics….