Homeschoolers!!!

[wife]

How do you like being shouted at??

anyway... I need a math video that goes over math facts... Something like entertaining flash cards. I can go over and over and over them and they just don't stick... They say them but it isn't getting to the brain..

Now my middle one watch multiplication rock (schoolhouse rock) and learned to count by 5 by the second viewing, so I am thinking that a video for his addition and subtraction would be nice.

any ideas?

[funmudder]

Skip it for a few months and then come back to it. I'm not sure why, but everytime we hit a comprehension bump, we back off (and focus on an elective type course) and come back.
More often than not, they just seem to 'get it' better after their minds (subconciously still working on it?) have stewed over the facts that once baffled them.
My best reader was like that. He just could not comprehend the phonics relating to the letters to make words. So I said 'okay' and we went into math. literally a year later we returned an *boom*, the kids was reading at a 3rd grade level in under a month. His brain just 'got it'.
Another son was this way with long devision. Literally frustrated him to tears. We backed off ( I had him work with younger bro on multiplication) and a couple months later we returned to the division with zero snags.

Each child has a pace/rythym they work best with. Isn't it brilliant that we can allow them the freedom to learn at their own speed? :D


I need a spelling refresher :kickcan

[funmudder]

I did hear Saxon math was offering a video series, but I personally have not checked it out ;)

[wife]

you are right.. We aren't doing the cards this summer... so maybe they will click in the fall..

My oldest is starting long division and MAN... I forgot how hard it was when I learned it..... Craziness....

I do love being able to back off and return... I love homeschooling:yeah

[funmudder]

Meeeee too :nod

[lisaann]

http://bigbrainz.com/index.php

This is a very fun computer video game for kids to memorize their times tables. I dowloaded the free version and my ds loved it so much that I went ahead and bought the full version. I cant believe how well he is memorizing them!

During the summer I am going to have him play it for 30 minutes a day (which he doesent mind at all :thumb ). On the days we dont have time for that I have him do the Hot Dot flash cards. The thing I like about these flash cards is it gives them a choice of answers. If they have a rough idea of an answer but arent quite sure I think it helps to have multiple choice. http://www.toys4minds.com/hotdoflca.html

[lisaann]

Skip it for a few months and then come back to it. I'm not sure why, but everytime we hit a comprehension bump, we back off (and focus on an elective type course) and come back.
More often than not, they just seem to 'get it' better after their minds (subconciously still working on it?) have stewed over the facts that once baffled them.
My best reader was like that. He just could not comprehend the phonics relating to the letters to make words. So I said 'okay' and we went into math. literally a year later we returned an *boom*, the kids was reading at a 3rd grade level in under a month. His brain just 'got it'.
Another son was this way with long devision. Literally frustrated him to tears. We backed off ( I had him work with younger bro on multiplication) and a couple months later we returned to the division with zero snags.

Each child has a pace/rythym they work best with. Isn't it brilliant that we can allow them the freedom to learn at their own speed? :D


I need a spelling refresher :kickcan


I agree totally. :nod I see mental road blocks as a warning sign that they arent ready to learn this yet.

[Green Darner]

We like to play a lot of games that incidentally involve math. For instance Yatzee is a good one! Also monopoly and card games like rummy. This is how both of my children learned how to count, add, multiply, etc.