Today we worked on continuing to expose and explore the value of being able to express portions of a whole in various different forms, whether it be percentage, fraction (reduced & expanded), and in decimal. Lily doesn’t care and so it’s challenging to keep her focus. For the future of this concept, I’m researching angles […]
Decimal Exploration
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/decimals/play/ http://www.coolmath.com/prealgebra/02-decimals/04-decimals-converting-fraction-to-decimal-01 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/decimals/read/1/ Currency (British) http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/znfb9j6 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio/subjects/mathematics https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/decimal_place_value/v/decimal-place-value
Calculating Travel Time
For this part of the game, she had to determine the following: Distance to be traveled Speed of travel Duration of rest/stops Number of stops Total hours for journey, considering distance, speed, and stops Initially, we discussed the equivalent between 8kmh and 8mph, then discussed the idea of figuring out how long it would take […]
Relevance & Regret
This post is cross posted from my Childhood Revered site We educate our daughter independently, in a manner that is driven by her curiosity and interests. This method works beautifully because it inspires, encourages, and ignites her (and us), it also requires relevance be at the root of our activities, which means […]
Relevance & Regret
This post is cross posted from my Childhood Revered site We educate our daughter independently, in a manner that is driven by her curiosity and interests. This method works beautifully because it inspires, encourages, and ignites her (and us), it also requires relevance be at the root of our activities, which means […]
Money, Decimal, and a Slew of Other Stuff – Here's Our Day, Today
We revisited the decimal debacle today, from a very different angle. Instead of trying to work with lining up decimals for calculating, we returned to money and her mental calculations followed. First she worked with the image shown below, and then, when I asked her to look at the problem written on the next […]
24 Hour Clock
We started exploring 24 hour format today, which she’s heard of it before, but only slightly. It remains without relevance at this point, but the concept was part of some game she wanted to play, and so she was exposed. Russ will look for an opportunity to bring it into something of interest for Lily. […]
Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included
She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft. Images posted in reverse order of completion
Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included
She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft. Images posted in reverse order of completion
Bookwormish
Last night I started reading Fairy Swarm to Lily. I haven’t tried reading her a chapter/novel like book from a tangible book copy before now. We read from an electronic device often before bed, or in the car, etc.. but this time, I had book in hand. She snuggled up next to me and as […]