Hello, conpro. With summer upon us, this is usually the time homeschool mothers everywhere start planning for their upcoming school year.
I have been happily and gratefully homeschooling since the beginning with my children, and it's something I thoroughly enjoy and highly recommend! It's a beautiful way to live life alongside your children. It's also something that fathers can and should be heavily invested in, as they are the rocks of their families and so important!
I am just humbly offering my help to any new, seasoned, or interested families who want advice or just to share an ear. I'm happy to discuss curriculum, educational philosophies, setting reasonable goals, how to get started, the logistics of teaching multiple students, or simply pray for you as your family decides what to do this year.
I treasure this group and am praying for you all. God bless you!
I’m extremely hopeful for the future of homeschooling, not just because it’s a necessity either… No matter what the system says, educating your child will be way easier and better and maybe even cheaper under a homeschool program, especially as those programs evolve to fit with the times way more smoothly than our common core.
Baking is great, especially for really understanding fractions. Same with building for geometry.
Business also covers a lot. Calculating break-evens is pretty much the only place I use intercepts and there's financial math, taxes, etc.
The main reason they teach the same math every year is that 90% of students don't actually understand the concepts, they try to memorize everything and that doesn't work for math. Get the fundamental operations down and most things come pretty easily after that, to the point that you could just teach math as necessary in other subjects, rather than on it's own.
For us, we tend to teach things with a classical bent, meaning little kids are in a "grammar stage" and really well suited for learning facts and procedures. When they get a little older (in the "logic" and "rhetoric" stages) they can better understand things more abstractly. Sometimes they need more life experience under their belt for certain things.
For early elementary, this looks like memorizing math facts. I know that sounds common sense, but it sadly isn't lol. Playing with numbers and getting a feel for number sense, like 7 + 3 is the same as 8 + 2 and letting them play around with manipulatives. I really like Singapore Math, which moves from concrete, to pictorial, to abstract. Right Start Math is great, but hard to implement in large families.
For the older years, there are curricula that teach things like "Consumer Math." There are also a lot of really good logic curricula, my favorites being from Classical Academia Press. "The Fallacy Detective" is a fun introduction for middle aged kids!
> I’m extremely hopeful for the future of homeschooling, not just because it’s a necessity either… No matter what the system says, educating your child will be way easier and better and maybe even cheaper under a homeschool program, especially as those programs evolve to fit with the times way more smoothly than our common core.
Definitely. I suggest to mamas of many to find a quality curriculum, learn it well, and then stick with it. You can save money, your subsequent children will all be blessed by your expertise, and your older children, having already gone through it, can even help the younger crew if desired.
ALL math should be is everything you need to know in daily life. Especially how kikes calculate and came up with compound interest. and why compound interest only occurs in loans and not savings accounts.