Today, I’m taking in the article posted below, as well as that which can be found at these links: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-math-equations-that-change-way-you-see-world/ http://sandradodd.com/math/ https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/0502/zen_and_the_art_of_unschooling_math.htm FROM THE DECEMBER 2013 ISSUE Everything in the Universe Is Made of Math – Including You In this excerpt from his new book, Max Tegmark proposes that our reality isn’t […]
Let the Wondering Begin
An hour later… “What’s the rarest thing in the world?” “What’s the rarest thing in the universe?” “What’s the rarest species on earth?” “What’s the most common species on earth?” “What’s THAT?” and so our day of exploration continues.. while she plays Minecraft.
MinutePhysics
Our new favorite site and Youtube channel: MinutePhysics Today, so far, we’ve watched all the following videos. She’s now playing Minecraft, and I get to sit back and wait until she starts regurgitating what we’ve just watched. This is one of the most enjoyable aspects of educating her as we do – being present when, after […]
Milk?
“Who’s that!?”, inquires Lily of the image in today’s Google Doodle. “MLK? Milk?” I explain her initials spell CAN, and these initials belong to a man named Martin. “He was a man who had a family and a mission”, I tentatively begin to explain. We then talk about what a mission is and how she […]
Decimals and Their Equivalents
This post goes to, and is filed with tags related to focus, attention, frustration, and the simple concept that unless we begin to condition our youngest ones from the very beginning to be willing to comply with the forced parameters we tend to identify with conventional schooling, it seems attempting to integrate even a small […]
Decimals and Their Equivalents
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 […]