While Practicing Exponents, Place Value, Division, Multiplication and Critical Thinking We had a very short block of one week on Number Bases. Number bases, in my opinion, is not a crucial concept in math. However, it is a fun one and an opportunity to practice exponent, multiples, and division work, and to practice a bit…
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Exponent Work for Homeschool Math
Playing with Doubles in Cellular Biology In our last block, cellular biology, we ran across something in our reading that talked about how some bacteria are able to double every 20 minutes. I thought to myself, “That would be some fun math for the day.” I scrapped my previous math plans, and wrote a few…
pH Rainbows, Probability and Tricky Hydrogen
A Homeschool Science Lesson about pH, Concentration of the Hydronium Ion, and Logarithmic Scales. A pH lesson may be my very favorite lessons. It has all the best things – math, science, and rainbows. This lesson was a two day process, but I’ve been subtly leading us here for a while, on the math side…