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!
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.