Posted in JBug, living math, montessori on Jan 10th, 2008 11 Comments »
That isn’t a phrase we tend to expect to hear coming out of our kids’ mouths. But this morning I heard it from JBug. Yesterday I presented the addition strips board and she took to it like a duck to water. After finishing up the “twos” fact card I started her on, she asked me [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, living math, montessori on Sep 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Just so you don’t think we are ALL fun and games around here, a picture of JBug doing her math. Her task is to lay out all of her number cards from 1-9000 in order, and the correct quantity of beads. She pulls out the next card, adds it to the stack, and then adds [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., living math, montessori on Aug 14th, 2007 21 Comments »
Well I have finally had a chance to be home for a bit and start setting up things for school. I’ve decided to combine working areas for JBug and Superboy as much as possible this year. First on the list was the math centers. Here is our main math center all set up for the [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., living math on May 10th, 2007 5 Comments »
Superboy made a new friend today. Thanks to Denise at Let’s Play Math he was introduced to a new friend: Euclid. The task was to solve the problem of trying to make square corners, using the methods of the ancient Egyptian Surveyors or “rope-stretchers.” Superboy constructed a right triangle using only a knotted string and [...]
