With children who desire a future in science and computers, math is important in our household. This post is part of the Virtual Curriculum Fair: Discovering Patterns in Mathematics, Logic, or Science series. Check out the links at the bottom of this post to read how others approach math, logic,…
Learning to make tens is an important part of the Singapore method. Making tens involves learning the number combinations to make ten. Later the child will heavily depend on this concept to do mental calculations. We just hit this area for the first time in my daughter’s Singapore math book.…
Singapore Math is well-known for teaching kids mental math strategies. While they do have supplementary books that focus on mental math, I’ve found the mental math drills listed in the back of the Home Instructor’s Guide to be sufficient. Teaching my kids these strategies has really helped my math skills…
Last summer I made the decision to accelerate my boys in math. I had had psycho-educational testing done late in the school year and discovered my younger son was not close to his potential when it came to math skills. I also realized that I was going a little slow…
This school year I’ve adjusted our math to better meet the needs of my kids. Last school year I had some psycho-educational testing done on my boys to figure out their skills, abilities, and how to best teach them. Testing gave me some valuable information and as a result I…
We have been using Singapore math since the beginning of this school year. I had read that it was a strong math program and helpful to teach a child to think mathematically. Then I tried it. I am using two different levels with my boys. One child is math-minded and…
After completing his workbook he decided to use the Base 10 blocks to figure out the height of his sister’s cup. Enjoying his workbook. They are really enjoying the lessons in Singapore. They like changing from manipulatives to textbook to workbook. Fun with manipulatives after his lesson was completed.
Something great happened today – something that has never happened since we started homeschooling. Today BOTH of my boys stated that math was their favorite activity they did in school today. Math has often been approached with the “do I have to?” attitude. Tonight as my boys were about to…
