Denise Gaskins

Math Prompt: True-False-True One of the stretch goals for my Charlotte Mason’s Living Math Kickstarter campaign is to add a math journaling prompt to the end of each chapter. So, I’ve been playing around with ideas to get readers writing. Since the book’s all about how to build mathematical reasoning, I’m looking for ways to prompt creative thinking and flexibility in math calculations.

Math Prompt: True-False-True

This puzzle pushes students to consider the structure of mathematical expressions. Make it a game by letting your children challenge you, too.

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Charlotte Mason’s Living Math Launched: Order Your Copy Today And so it begins: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math is LIVE on Kickstarter! Check It Out ❯ ⭐ Don't delay! ⭐ To have a successful campaign, we need plenty of people to back the project early. The more supporters we get in these early days, the more likely the Kickstarter platform folks will help spread the news for us.

Charlotte Mason’s Living Math Launched: Order Your Copy Today

And so it begins: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math is LIVE on Kickstarter! Check It Out ❯ ⭐ Don't delay! ⭐ To have a successful campaign, we need plenty of people to back the project early. The more supporters we get in these early days,…

Math Game Monday: Factors and Multiples This game blends strategy and factoring practice, challenging players to think several steps ahead. Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children. And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play. So what are you waiting for? Let's play some math! Factors and Multiples Math Concepts:

Math Game Monday: Factors and Multiples

Have fun playing math with your kids!

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Thinking Thursday: William F. Osgood Writing to Learn Math: What did the author mean? Put the thought in your own words. Do you agree or disagree? Why? Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Thinking Thursday: William F. Osgood

Try this week's math journaling prompt with your kids!

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Can You Help Me? I'm finishing up my plans for the new Charlotte Mason's Living Math Kickstarter project and pledge levels, which launches early in March. And I'd really appreciate your help. Could you please take a few minutes to look over the project page and give me some feedback? Preview & Comments Page (NO account required to see the preview, but you may need to log in if you want to leave a comment.)

Can You Help Me? Check out the preview for my Kickstarter, and let me know if everything makes sense.
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Math Game Monday: Strike It Out

Have fun playing math with your kids!

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Thinking Thursday: Gadgets Galore Writing to Learn Math: When students create their own math, they forge a personal connection to mathematical concepts and relationships. And it’s fun! Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Thinking Thursday: Gadgets Galore

Try this week's math journaling prompt with your kids!

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Coming Soon: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math Coming Soon! In March, I'll be launching my newest book, Charlotte Mason's Living Math: Applying the Principles of Education to Help Children Develop Mathematical Reasoning. And the Kickstarter prelaunch page is now live. That means you can sign up to get an email from Kickstarter as soon as the campaign launches: Visit the Prelaunch Page ❯ (If you back the campaign on launch day, that encourages the Kickstarter folks to share it with more people.)

Coming Soon: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math -- bringing our children face-to-face with the big ideas of mathematics to help them develop their reasoning skills.
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Math Game Monday: Bowling (Shut the Box)

Have fun playing math with your kids!

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Thinking Thursday: Exponential Folds Writing to Learn Math: People learn math by playing with ideas. A math journal can be like a science lab book. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Thinking Thursday: Exponential Folds

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Mental Math: Advanced Division The farther we go in math, the more division disappears. It ceases to exist as a separate concept. Instead, we learn to see division as: an inverse multiplication a fraction (ratio) a proportional relationship Each of these perspectives offers us a new way to think about and make sense of our calculations.

Mental Math: Advanced Division

The farther we go in math, the more division disappears. It ceases to exist as a separate concept. Instead, we learn to see division as: an inverse multiplication a fraction (ratio) a proportional relationship Each of these perspectives offers us a new way to think…

Math Game Monday: What’s My Rule?

Have fun playing math with your kids!

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Thinking Thursday: Goose and Grapes Writing to Learn Math: Problem-solving cares less about whether an answer is right and more about whether a solution makes sense. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Thinking Thursday: Goose and Grapes

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Mental Math: Advanced Multiplication, Part 2 The methods in last week’s Advanced Multiplication post only work for certain numbers, but we have another, more powerful multiplication tool: We can always use a ratio table to make sense of any multiplication. Ratios are the beginning of proportional thinking. We can systematically alter the numbers in a ratio to reach any quantity required by our problem. Students begin working with ratios in story problems that help them visualize and make sense of a proportional relationship.

Mental Math: Advanced Multiplication, Part 2

Ratios are the beginning of proportional thinking. We can systematically alter the numbers in a ratio to reach any quantity required by our problem.

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Math Game Monday: Target Ten This equation game for elementary students builds creative, flexible thinking about addition and subtraction. Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children. And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play. Target Ten Math Concepts: addition, subtraction, multistep calculation. Players: any number. Equipment: one deck of math cards, pencils and paper, timer (optional).

Math Game Monday: Target Ten

Have fun playing math with your kids!

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Thinking Thursday: Ernest Hemingway Writing to Learn Math: What did the author mean? Put the thought in your own words. Do you agree or disagree? Why? Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Thinking Thursday: Ernest Hemingway

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Mental Math: Advanced Multiplication, Part 1 Mental math is the key to algebra because the same principles underlie them both. As our children learn to do calculations in their heads, they make sense of how numbers work together and build a strong foundation of understanding. Remember that while mental math is always done WITH the mind, reasoning our way to the answer, it doesn’t have to be only IN the mind.

Mental Math: Advanced Multiplication, Part 1

As numbers get bigger, we tend to have more factors to work with, thus many more options for solving any calculation. And the more we play with numbers, the more we learn about the web of relationships that we call mathematics.

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Math Game Monday: Clock Math This game encourages players of all ages to think creatively with numbers. Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children. And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play. Clock Math Math Concepts: arithmetic, number properties, mixed operations. Players: any number. Equipment: clock, pencil and paper or markers and whiteboard.

Math Game Monday: Clock Math

Have fun playing math with your kids!

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Thinking Thursday: Estimation Writing to Learn Math: Research prompts help students view math as a human endeavor. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: Notice. Wonder. Create.

Thinking Thursday: Estimation

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Homeschool Memories: Bill Gates Proportions II Once upon a time, when my kids and I were young… Later the same year, not too long after our discussion of the Bill Gates proportions, I stumbled on some more data. I discovered that the median American family’s net worth was $93,100 in 2004, most of that being home equity. This gave me another chance to play around with proportions.

Homeschool Memories: Bill Gates Proportions II

Once upon a time, when my kids and I were young…

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Math Game Monday: Odd–Even–Prime Race This game challenges upper-elementary and middle school students to practice strategy and mental math as they race across a number chart. Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children. And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play. Odd–Even–Prime Race Math Concepts: addition, subtraction, multiplication, odd and even, prime and composite numbers, strategic thinking.

Math Game Monday: Odd–Even–Prime Race

Have fun playing math with your kids!

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Thinking Thursday: Harder Than It Looks Writing to Learn Math: When students learn to visualize shapes, designs, and patterns, it makes them better at math. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Thinking Thursday: Harder Than It Looks

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Homeschool Memories: Putting Bill Gates in Proportion Once upon a time… We were getting ready for the annual homeschool co-op speech contest, and a friend emailed me for help. “Can you help us figure out how to figure out this problem? “This is related to C’s speech. I think we have all the information we need, but I’m not sure: “The average household income in the United States is $60,000/year.

Homeschool Memories: Putting Bill Gates in Proportion

We were getting ready for the annual homeschool co-op speech contest, and a friend emailed me for help.

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Playful Math Carnival 183 via Math Hombre If you're into math education --- or just curious about how learning math could possibly be fun --- you'll definitely want to check out the latest edition of the Playful Math Carnival. It's a collection of awesome blog posts curated by John Golden and published on the Math Hombre website: Playful Math Carnival 183: Celebrating Mathy People The whole point of the carnival is to show that math doesn't have to be tedious or repetitive.

Playful Math Carnival 183 via Math Hombre

If you want to mix up your math teaching and make it more enjoyable for your students (and for yourself), definitely check out the Playful Math Carnival.

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Math Game Monday: Blockout In this game, players practice multiplication facts and use strategic planning as they build 2-D shapes to block their opponent. Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children. And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play. Blockout Math Concepts: multiplication, area, 2-D shapes. Players:

Math Game Monday: Blockout --- In this game, players practice multiplication facts and use strategic planning as they build 2-D shapes to block their opponent. #mtbos #homeschooling #mathgames #letsplaymath

Thinking Thursday: Payday Puzzle Writing to Learn Math: Math journal explanations avoid the formality that turns so many students away from geometry proofs. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Writing to Learn Math: Math journal explanations avoid the formality that turns so many students away from geometry proofs.

Payday Puzzle: Try this week's math journaling prompt with your kids!

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Math Game Monday: Domino Fraction War This game offers upper-elementary and middle school students plenty of practice doing estimation and mental math with fractions. Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children. And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play. Domino Fraction War Math Concepts: proper fractions, comparing fractions. Players:

Math Game Monday: Domino Fraction War

This game offers upper-elementary and middle school students plenty of practice with estimation and mental math.

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Thinking Thursday: Half Plus Three Writing to Learn Math: When students create their own math, they forge a personal connection to mathematical concepts and relationships. And it’s fun! Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and figure out things on their own? Help kids practice slowing down and taking the time to fully comprehend a math topic or problem-solving situation with these classic tools of learning: …

Writing to Learn Math: When students create their own math, they forge a personal connection to mathematical concepts and relationships. And it’s fun!

Try this week's math journaling prompt with your kids: Half Plus Three.

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Musings: Math is Communication The question came up on a homeschool math forum: “My first grader and I were playing with equivalent expressions. We were trying to see how many ways we could write the value ‘3.’ “He wrote down 10 – 2 × 3 + 1. “When I tried to explain the problem with his calculation, he got frustrated and didn’t want to do math.

Musings: Math is Communication

How can we help children learn to express their math thoughts?

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Math Game Monday: Nine Cards This game helps young children build mental math skills. And it's fun for older kids or adults to play along! Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children. And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play. Nine Cards Math Concepts: addition, number bonds for ten.

Math Game Monday: Nine Cards

This game helps young children build mental math skills. And it's fun for older kids or adults to play along!

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