What Is Your Child’s Experience of Math?
If your children made an acrostic for the word “Mathematics,” what would they include?
Would they think of adjectives like artistic, mysterious, or sublime?
Or would they focus on words like answers, maddening, and stress?
I love taking a playful approach to mathematics. Puzzles, games and art projects lay down a foundation of wonder and enjoyment. This creates a strong, positive base to support our kids through the inevitable difficulties of learning an abstract subject like math.
There are many rich math resources these days! So different from back when I started homeschooling. If you need ideas to help you transform your child’s experience of math, check out my Free Math on the Internet pages.
Internet Math Resources
In fact, I have a huge folder of even more bookmarks and links that I hope to add to my resource pages, whenever I find the time…
Does your family have a favorite way to play with math?
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“Mathematics: An Acrostic” copyright © 2019 by Denise Gaskins. Image at the top of the post copyright © Ishan via Unsplash.