Most every child at some point is asked to learn their multiplication facts. I had not yet begun multiplication with my 6 year old so when I was given a subscription to Times Alive in exchange for my honest review, I gladly accepted. Times Alive from Times Tables the Fun Way is a monthly subscription to 18 online lessons with animated songs …
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My 6 year old is good at math, but she’s not a big fan of doing pages of traditional worksheets. To foster her love of math, I am always on the look-out for finding fun but well thought out ways to learn different math skills. And I’m slightly picky lol, especially when it comes to math. If …
Learning addition strategies helps kids learn to add the faster more efficient way. I created 31 pages of addition strategies worksheets to help kids learn these very useful skills. Why I Created These Addition Strategies Worksheets The short answer is I saw a need. I had spent quite some time with my daughter mastering addition. She’s pretty …
I honestly don’t know how I stumbled across this type of mental math. Then I watched YouTube video’s of kids calculating in their head faster than you could find the answer using a calculator and I was intrigued. It’s basically using an abacus to do calculations and then gradually learning to visualize the abacus in …
Last year my preschool aged daughter completed her Grade 1 homeschooling year. Our chosen curriculum for math was Math Mammoth and IXL. Now that she’s moving on to the 2nd grade, I can look back at the previous year and analyze what worked and didn’t work. Here’s my IXL and grade 1 Math Mammoth review. IXL IXL was great. …
This will be my daughter’s Grade 1 homeschooling curriculum: Language Arts – See post Grade 1 – Language Arts Math – For math, I have chosen Math Mammoth. I did a lot of research before purchasing and after comparing different products, Math Mammoth was the only one I couldn’t find a negative review for – …