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Category Archives: Math
Solid Figures & Nets
Started to write this about two weeks ago! Still worth a post… Friday we had what I think was our first really combined lesson. Of course it really wasn’t supposed to be Sam’s math lesson that day was 3D figures and “nets”. Thank goodness for teacher’s manuals! I had no idea what a “net” was. [...]
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More Math Help
Sam and I have spent 2 days trying to solve this and have been unsuccessful. I’m trying NOT to look in the back for the answer and reverse engineer the solution. Here’s a picture of our white board. It seems to me we’re very close but I’m stumped on how to guide him to the [...]
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Math is Fun Mom!
Here is is Thursday of the first week of the last quarter of this school year. (lotta “of” in that sentence!) It is going very well and most importantly, the kids are having FUN! On the other hand, I am utterly exhausted staying up late to make sure I have everything printed and ready for [...]
Posted in Art & Music Apprec, History, Homeschooling, Latin, Life, Math
A Good Monday
Yesterday went amazingly well! We got everything done and both kids were right on track all day. Jessie did 13 addition problems with me while Sam worked on addiding mixed numbers. She tried to tell Sam that he did his warm up drills wrong. They were a mix of multiplication and divistion and she was [...]
Posted in History, Homeschooling, Latin, Math, PE
Alive and jotting it down
but not kicking… or running for that matter. Yep. I’m still here. Just gotten over a really hairy case of the stomach flu. Of course it was at its worst on Mother’s Day. My tummy still isn’t really happy but at least I’m not battling a 103 degree fever. Still feeling rather like an old [...]
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Pi Day
Did you know this friday is Pi Day? Did you know that my birthday listed in digits (yyyymmdd) occurs at position 17,267,250 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. (The 3. is not counted.) I am completely amazed by both statements above. Never crossed my mind until today. Don’t believe me. Go here [...]
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