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Fractions Game

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Sorting and Comparing Fractions

Three Fraction Activities That Will Give a Number Sense for Fractions. This week I’m giving you… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/ ….

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Fractions Year 2

A continuation of Fractions Year 1. Exploring fractional relationships, discovering patterns, playing games, and making art.

Developing Number Sense for Fractions

Adding Fraction for Game Points in our Homeschooling We’ve been playing a RightStart matching game for percentages and fractional equivalencies. The way that we have been calculating our scores for this game has been by adding all the fractions from the pairs. There are many activities that I have in my math curricula Fractions Year…

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Fractions Game

A fractions game to create flexibility and understanding of fractions.

An Introduction to Genetics through Botany

Our Botany Block offered the perfect opportunity for an introduction to genetics with the work of Friar Gregor Mendel. Mendel is the person that bred several generations of pea plants to discover the basic understanding of genetics. In this book Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas, the story of Gregor Mendel is told and…

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March 3 – Using Workbooks as Source Books

I use workbooks, but likely not in the way that you might think. What I’ve found is very little int… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about…

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Keeping a Math Journal

A Look inside our Math Journals from 4th-6th Grades Introduction Keeping a math journal can b… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/ ….

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March 28 – How Many Triangles

Happy Thursday! This has been a big week for me with the release of Fraction Year 3, and I … Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them…

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Jan 31 – Weekly Check In

We are doing our work with ratios again this week. It’s a short block and will end this week, and i… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more…

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Feb 6 – Weekly Check In

I wanted to share this week, is that I have a video that will go public sometime soon on YouTu… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them…

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Keeping a Portfolio

A Sampling of our Homeschooling Portfolios through the Years: from Early Elementary through High Sc… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/ .  If…

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Overview of How I Approach Math

What Math Concepts that I Teach When and Why Math is probably the subject that brings most homes… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at…

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Feb 06 – Weekly Check In

Happy Wednesday, friend! The week is half way over. Hana, with Pepper and Pine, and I did do a Wald… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about…

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Using Game Points for Math

Who thought regular games could be used for math? Of course, I did. Some games point system for kee… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them…

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Playing with Truchet Tiles

Truchet tiles are square tiles with two contrasting colors that can be arranged to make different p… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/…

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Comparing Rods for Fractional Relationships

In this activity we are comparing each rod to each of the others to see the fractional relationship. It looks overwhelming, but it’s not. The first couple of rows or columns are the most challenging and after a pattern emerges, and it becomes much easier.  Having said that, this comparison did take us three to four…

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Doubling and Halving

How using doubles and halves can help us in simplifying math. Doubling and halving are such inte… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/…

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Math Curricula

I have a lot of people ask me what order to use my curricula. I wanted the curricula to have the most flexibility, so first and foremost, use it to suit your family’s needs. As I write the curricula, this is the order I had in mind, and the order I implemented with my daughter….

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Notice and Wonder

Cultivating the Observation of Patterns and Relationships “Notice and Wonder” may be the most va… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/ .  If…

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Math Workshop Replays

Workshop Replays Summer Seminars You can listen to the audio of these seminars… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them  at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/ .  If you are…

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An Inside Look into our Homeschool Math Journal

Some homeschoolers keep a common place book. Some homeschoolers keep a language arts book. We keep a Math Journal. Because I’m not teaching math from a curriculum, keeping a math journal helps us to keep track of where we have been and thus where we are going. When we are stuck on a challenge, we…

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