Congratulations to any of you who are trying your best to give your children a liberal education, and introduce them to things like literature, art, music, science and math, or anything else that they might not naturally be attracted to, or not be able to get a good introduction to in a public school. All of those things are part of a good education, and I know it’s not easy for homeschooling moms and dads to be able to cover all the bases by [...]
Are you a homeschool parent struggling to teach your child math? Or are you just frustrated by the way your kid’s school teaches math? You’re definitely not alone, and you’re in great company.
Here is part of a story from a father who faced the same thing. It’s a comment left by Mark, a reader [...]
This post is a continuation of the other posts about the video on YouTube entitled “An Inconvenient Truth” with M.J McDermott (not to be confused with Al Gore’s film) which concerns the dismal state of American basic math education in public schools. You can view it here.
M.J. had two good premises, but her conclusion does [...]
I’m tipping my mitt a little early, because the intermediate multiplication lessons are not finished yet. But I thought people should have easy access to the basic method for advanced multiplication. This is the tip of the iceberg, but everyone should at least be able to do this method. Anything less than that is either [...]