Category Archives: Living Math

Despite my goal of kitchen table school everyday this week: the books on Archimedes are going to be due back at the library soon, and I really wanted the boys to play with the Platonic and Archimedian solids, like I Continue reading Archimedes→

M wanted to know why sometimes his instant oatmeal packet held many "dinosaur eggs," and sometimes not so many.  (Yes, I let him have sugary instant oatmeal  as a treat sometimes. ;-) We began to count the eggs before adding Continue reading Dinosaur Egg Data collection→

Miquon can introduce math ideas so quickly in the early books, that I get caught off guard.  For the past few days, M has been practicing addition and subtraction, playing on number lines, and I’ve been getting breakfast dishes done Continue reading M takes to the times sign→

M knew that we had passed the McDonalds at Hamonasett, because he’d finished dinner.  He knew that was the half way point to MomMom and DadDad’s house, and he knew that it took 3 1/2 hours to get there from Continue reading “Are we There Yet?” Math→

We still haven’t gone back to worksheets yet: M is playful and engaged with the manipulatives, and not frustrated with himself.  There doesn’t seem to be such pressure for him to write things the right way the first time if Continue reading More numberbonds→

K did only get me up twice last night, but I was still slug a bed at 7AM.  I heard DH herding children, and M plaintively call, "Are all these cool library books for me? But who will read them Continue reading Pre Breakfast Math, with M→

Standing in the need of prayer, and grace.  Yesterday I disciplined M in anger, had to apologize to him, my husband, the Lord.  Today I’m anoyed at myself and trying to remember that my standing with God depends on the Continue reading It’s Me Oh Lord…→

M has been proud of his ability to use a number line to estimate sums, but differences were too difficult, and getting “wrong answers,” on his work sheets were very trying for him. We switched venues by drawing a long Continue reading Hop Scotching the Number-Line→