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Playing with Truchet Tiles

Truchet tiles are square tiles with two contrasting colors that can be arranged to make different patterns. When I think of them, I usually think of the contrasting colors dissecting the square into two even triangles, but…

Sorting and Comparing Fractions

Three Fraction Activities That Will Give a Number Sense for Fractions. This week I’m giving you a few excerpts of my Fractions guides. The first exercise, ‘Sorting and Comparing’ is from Fractions Year 1. The second, ‘Comparing…

Using Eratosthenes Sieve to Explore Prime Numbers

Eratosthenes’ Sieve is a method of finding prime numbers by eliminating multiples of numbers in the 100-chart, leaving all the prime numbers from 1 to 100. It’s a great activity for seeing the relationships between prime and…

Middle School Math Journal

Relationships, Number Sense, Problem Solving, and Understanding Numbers through Math Journaling This post is following up with our most current math journal that goes through the end of middle school and touches just barely on some of…

Using Game Points for Math

Who thought regular games could be used for math? Of course, I did. Some games point system for keeping score have wonderful opportunities to practice math strategies. Today, I’m going to go through several games that we…

Overview of Factoring 

An Exploration to its Relationship to Multiplication and Division This week I’m touching on factoring. In math, I think it’s important to show children many different angles of a concept and to make as many connections to…

An Overview of Multiplication

Looking at the Progression of Multiplication from Skip Counting in Quality of Number all the Way to Multiplying Expressions in Algebra. Introducing Multiplication When I started this post, I had meant for it to be shorter than…

Place Value Go Fish

 Place Value Go Fish is a game that I first saw Denise Haskins, the author of the book, Let’s Play Math, play. In this game, players take turns asking each player for the digits 0 through 9. If…

Healing Math Trauma

Including Non-Conventional Math Activities as Part or All of your Homeschooling Math Curriculum It happens easily enough. A concept is a little too challenging, there is one too many wrong answers, or the worst, it’s easy for…

Window Star Math

Playing with Shapes, Angles, and Symmetry When Making Sun Catchers A little while ago, I showed the homeschooling subscribers how to fold window stars. This week, we’re going to explore and discover some of the math within…

A Walk through Waldorf Math

With a Checklist for Math on this Path Math is beautiful. If you get past the calculations of math, the forms from models, the spirals, the patterns, the shapes that surround our natural world are infinitely stunning.…

Rooibos Rainbow Tea Activity

A Sensory Math Activity for Homeschooling. Jump to the PDF Not only is making tea a wonderful sensory activity for a child, but at the end of it, you get to make and drink the tea. I…

Keeping a Math Journal

A Look inside our Math Journals from 4th-6th Grades Introduction Keeping a math journal can be a wonderful visual for your journey through math, but can also be very practical. We do use our math journal to…

Memorizing the Multiplication Tables

Different Ways to Help our Children Memorize the Multiplication Tables One of the most common questions that I get is about multiplication. People want to know how to help their child memorize the multiplication tables. Memorization of…

Overview of How I Approach Math

What Math Concepts that I Teach When and Why Math is probably the subject that brings most homeschool parents dread and possibly even influences their decisions to homeschool. Many of us didn’t receive a good math education…

Using Monopoly for Math

The Different Ways that You Can Use the Game Monopoly to Get in a Little Math Practice in your Homeschooling. Introduction I’m pretty community and collaborative-oriented, so the idea that I might suggest Monopoly as my all-time…

Doubling and Halving

How Using Doubles and Halves Can Help Us in Simplifying Math Doubling and halving are such integral ideas within our world, that we almost don’t even think about them. They are useful tools in several math concepts…

Exploring Long Division

Taking a look at the Long Division Algorithm Today I’m going to try to tackle the process of long division. This is a complex algorithm to learn and often is a sticking point for many children and…

Math Circles

How the Waldorf Pedagogy uses Circles in their Math Waldorf uses circles throughout their years in math, from an exploration of them in Year 1 with the Quality of Numbers through their elementary years and into the…

An Overview of Cuisenaire Rods

An the Many Ways They Can Be Used to Show Math Cuisenaire rods are my favorite math manipulative. This is because they translate the math so clearly. This week we’re going to do a very wide overview…

Hello. I’m Della, a math enthusiast and a seeker of the beauty in math. Math and Science have always been my favorites in school, but even so, I wanted something more than how I was taught for my children. I learned much about teaching math with my son and my daughter. My style is heavily influenced by the Waldorf pedagogy and Gattegno’s work using Cuisenaire Rods. I love adding in activities to use what we learn, play games, and create art. There really is so much beauty in math. Welcome

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