Podcast: How to Transform Math Lessons without Changing your Curriculum

I have a new podcast interview, and I think you’ll enjoy it!

Check out Pam Barnhill’s 10 Minutes to a Better Homeschool on your favorite podcast app, or listen on the website:

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Here’s a couple of excerpts…

Choose Your Focus

When we focus on right answers, we can make our child feel like a failure at math. So instead, we want to change our focus.

We need to focus our math lessons on thinking, on how our children are reasoning, how they’re figuring things out. The point of each of these tips is to help you get your kids thinking about math.

When we make mathematical thinking our goal, those right answers will come along as a side effect. They’re a natural result when our children make sense of math.

You Are in Charge

You don’t have to finish every problem in your math lesson. You don’t have to finish every lesson in your math book.

The textbook is not a task master. The textbook is a tool, and it’s your choice how to use that tool.

You can think of your textbook like a road map. It shows you some of the places that you might go on your learning journey, but it doesn’t cover the whole world of mathematics. It’s a pretty limited map, and you are in charge of the adventure.

So you decide where to visit, how long to stay, when you want to branch off on an unexpected side trip.

We had a great discussion! Listen to the whole thing:

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