The Critical Thinking Co.™ is one of our favorite publishers. We have been using their books in the HP Academy of Homeschool Shmool (yes, that is our ‘official’ name, according to the girls) and the kids and I love window shopping on their website. It was a bit difficult choosing which book to review, since we […]
Mathematize Your Home: Shopping Math
March 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I’ve always maintained that shopping and making change are the most useful (and sneakiest) ways of practicing Math skills. On a recent trip to Monterey, our local meat shop, we had a few challenges other than what to have for dinner. For example, lean ground pork costs P205 a kilo, while regular ground […]
Mathematize Your Home: Board Games
December 5, 2016 by Leave a Comment
One of the sneaky ways we use to work in some Math skills into our regular, non-formal-studying lives is play board games. The girls love board games. We started with the beginner ones like Snakes and Ladders and Candyland, to Richard Scarry games to the girls’ current favorite, Monopoly. Aside from the […]
Mathematize Your Home: Jellybeans—[Math] Tricks for Treats
November 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
In the HP household (that’s ours), we usually ration out desserts, treats, and other sweets. We once received a huge jar of jellybeans as a gift—and it lasted for months! After a proper meal, the kids would get, at most, only 10 jellybeans. Since our jar had 49 flavors and then some, each bean had […]
Mathemize Your Home: Teaching Shapes and Colors (Part 1 of a Series)
November 7, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Parents worry about their kids’ reading skills, but I rarely hear them worry about number skills (I admit to that). But our children’s success is as dependent on numeracy as it is on literacy. Numeracy, which involves our ability to make sense of numbers, time, and patterns, to think logically, and to create […]
