Practicing multiplication facts is boring. I don’t remember it being an issue as a kid, but I was really into school. My kids aren’t like that. They don’t learn for no reason. Learning is a natural response to an interest, and they’re not interested in math facts. I wouldn’t push, but I think memorizing facts…
The first thing I heard when I woke up Friday was “Finding Dory comes out today!!”. I honestly don’t know how they knew. We don’t really watch TV. Or YouTube. Or anything with commercials. I suspect it was my mother (who is way more excited for Finding Dory than anyone else in existence). Still, surprised…
One day, shortly before Christmas, the hubs, Logi-Bear and I were shopping at Target. I don’t know know what happened, but when we got home Logi-Bear had a hexbug. We weren’t into Hexbugs before that. I kind of knew what they were but we just didn’t have them. Let’s just say, the boys LOVE the…
Memorizing math facts is a big deal in our house right now. It seems like everyone is working on something different. So we are using a lot of different methods for memorizing these facts – mostly games. They love playing the games the first few times, but then tire of them. So we are playing…
We’ve been practicing a LOT of addition facts. I’m of the belief that having memorized basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts simply makes life easier. But we don’t drill because that’s boring and not the most effective method. Nope, we don’t drill. We play games. Lots of games. Board games are popular with the…
Admittedly, we don’t do a lot of number line stuff. I want the boys to be familiar with it, because having more tools when it comes to math is always better. But it hasn’t been the tool they’ve resonated with the most. So we just use it enough to keep up the skill. I thought…
We don’t have a driveway or walkway or any area where we can really get out with sidewalk chalk. So sometimes we get new sidewalk chalk and head to the park. It’s always a fun treat and met with enthusiasm. I decided to take advantage of that enthusiasm to get them to practice some skip…
We’ve done many “read the room” activities before but it’s always been with language arts activities. Perhaps I should have called this “math the room”. Either way, I thought it would be fun to graph the images we find around the room. It wouldn’t be necessary to find each and every image. The idea is…
Combining something your child enjoys with something they need to do for school is often a recipe for success. My kids love NERF guns. Incorporating NERF guns into their school has rarely gone awry and this activity was no different. The concept is simple – add two numbers together and shoot the answer! If your…
Place value is a big deal when it comes to explaining math concepts. And I especially love to illustrate new concepts with manipulatives. So why not make some shamrock place value manipulatives, right? There are so so so many ways to use these. We have a tendency to pull out manipulatives anytime we start to…
Yes, more make 10 practice! Of course you could easily change this game to practice any number. We’re starting with memorizing 10s and doubles and then will move onto 6-9. Don’t miss the rest of the St Patricks Day math activities! So typically in memory you are searching for matching cards. In this…
This game is so utterly simple I daresay it’s almost brilliant. But it has been the most popular math activity we’ve ever done – with all three boys!!! I had to adjust a little to make it fit for all of them, but I’m more than willing to do that if it means we get…