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You see, at just the right time,
when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man,
though for a good man
someone might possibly dare to die.But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
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Need to pass that math test? Better stock up on chocolate. According to a recent study:
Mental arithmetic became easier after volunteers had been given large amounts of compounds found in chocolate… They were also less likely to feel tired or mentally drained…
[Hat tip: Joanne Jacobs.]
My daughter Kitten strongly dislikes math when forced to do it on her own, so I am trying to get back into the habit of doing “Buddy-Style Math” with her. We take turns working the problems in her workbook: mine, hers, mine, hers, and so on down the page. We work each problem out loud, explaining how we got the answer and checking each other as we go.
In a way, it is like Charlotte Mason-style narration applied to math, since my daughter has to process her thoughts in order to explain how she worked the problem, which fixes the math concepts more deeply in her mind.
Continue reading Buddy-Style Math: Doing Homework Without Tears
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The new math carnival is up and running at Homeschool Bytes:
There is a wide variety of articles, ranging from the “baby steps” of kindergarten math to the hurdle races of high school Check it out!
Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 