tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post6615257660352279757..comments2023-07-04T08:53:22.130-07:00Comments on In the Kitchen: Calculating an EducationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-47417136045711856722009-12-12T17:28:50.413-08:002009-12-12T17:28:50.413-08:00any news coming ?any news coming ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-79136471855235384522009-09-21T20:19:23.250-07:002009-09-21T20:19:23.250-07:00now i want to read outliers! i'll have to see...now i want to read outliers! i'll have to see if my library has it (unless of course you have a copy and want to lend it to me on wednesday. then i might just have to plan another trip to the bay to return it!) looking forward to meeting you!Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15738318324942700985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-70703928250072550682009-09-17T10:53:29.722-07:002009-09-17T10:53:29.722-07:00The girls, Clementine in particular, had been doin...The girls, Clementine in particular, had been doing the pessimal amount of math. Just enough to learn a topic and then forget it and then have to relearn it. This is discouraging. <br /><br />I did a lot of research into what made schools work and one of the most striking and consistent elements in good schools was that teachers were encouraged to treat their classroom like a lab. To try to figure out if things worked and if they didn't to try something else. <br /><br />What we have been doing hasn't been working. So we are trying something different in our lab school.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04779866178920345344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-30782791213797175532009-09-16T16:49:05.027-07:002009-09-16T16:49:05.027-07:00Hi Susan,
Here's a bunch of my ideas:
Everyo...Hi Susan,<br /><br />Here's a bunch of my ideas:<br /><br />Everyone has to figure out what's best for their own family--and that includes the Mom.<br /><br />There's busy work and there's meaningful work--which work will the child remember?<br /><br />I think it's good to have an expectation, but to be flexible about how they achieve it. <br /><br />In short, I think 40 minutes of math is excessive, unless she wants to do that, or she is willing to do that, especially since you originally said that 20 minutes was fine and then changed your tune. Her response to that new time was ingenious.Kristin https://www.blogger.com/profile/04323713538989288259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-23929731519066897132009-09-16T12:29:31.396-07:002009-09-16T12:29:31.396-07:00You are all so fantastic and understanding of orga...You are all so fantastic and understanding of organic homeschooling, but this is a yearly ritual of death and renewal which has its own logic. We must tear apart our way of doing things in order to see that it really works. :) I'll let you know how this cycle goes. You never know...<br /><br />Barbara, the online math is Stanford's epgy program. We do it through their open enrollment option which means that if you get 20 families together you can have access to the program for $130/year/child and without testing.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04779866178920345344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-55836144628820257632009-09-16T10:16:57.065-07:002009-09-16T10:16:57.065-07:00Alot of those projects include math concepts as I&...Alot of those projects include math concepts as I'm sure you are well aware- the trap- the scale of the drawing etc. I think when kids want to learn higher math they will until then there are plenty of games to practice math facts.ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101029966434969397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-49886292203674395602009-09-16T08:12:32.900-07:002009-09-16T08:12:32.900-07:00I love the bird trap! This is how we handle math ...I love the bird trap! This is how we handle math at our house: http://thekatstopshere.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-do-lot-of-math-at-your-house.htmlKathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399805400249672910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-27484623865568153342009-09-16T07:48:57.246-07:002009-09-16T07:48:57.246-07:00Marie Mantoinette is simply fabulous!
I have to w...Marie Mantoinette is simply fabulous!<br /><br />I have to wonder: don't you think 20 minutes of *attentive* math each day might be productive enough? At least until they're teenagers?<br /><br />Often, I'll feel like my kids are progressing fairly well, until I think about how much time school kids put in. But that's nearly always toxic thinking for me. You can't compare homeschooling with what kids do in classrooms. And you have research to back that up!patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02344799869066551079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739153214386464945.post-37105928358192909462009-09-16T04:45:12.417-07:002009-09-16T04:45:12.417-07:00Hi susan...what online math are you using??Hi susan...what online math are you using??Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07731338743476816059noreply@blogger.com