You have a Zoom meeting in 15 minutes. Your partner is finishing up a report in your makeshift home office. Your youngest is having a meltdown because she doesn’t understand her science worksheet. Your oldest is cranky because your youngest is yelling. And honestly? [...]
When it comes to creating homework, mathematics teachers draw the short straw. A single worksheet often requires the creation of 10-20 questions, and original word problems don't write themselves. This makes it all the more frustrating when we don't get the student engagement [...]
Being a parent is never easy, but adding the role of ‘teacher’ into the mix? That’s a whole other level of difficulty. If you’re like most parents, you don’t have classroom experience or teaching strategies that allow you to suddenly coordinate learning at [...]
Do you have parents desperate to keep their kid's engaged this summer? Here are five fun-filled activities to share with them this summer break, complete with teacher tips! Just copy and print the projects below to send home with your students or send to [...]
You’ve taken all the necessary steps to prepare your child for learning at home. There’s a desk set up, a carefully drawn timetable in the kitchen, and plenty of worksheets and online lessons that need to be completed. All you need to take [...]
While all parents are teachers in their own way, most of us will admit that we leave the core of our child’s education to classroom professionals. Here’s what you can do to prepare for home learning so that you are ready to support [...]
This post was updated on 26 October 2022. Has your little mathlete come home with a Mathletics school login? If you’re new to Mathletics and unsure of how you can use the program at home, you’ve come to the right place. All you need [...]
Mathematics can be stressful for homeschoolers. It might have been a few years since you personally engaged with conceptual mathematics, but the pressure is on to ensure your child understands the subject — their future work and prosperity almost depends on it. It’s [...]
With its focus on problem-solving, reasoning, and complex communication, maths brings out many of the soft skills that will set our students up for a fast-changing future. But for teachers who deal in hard skills – facts, formulas, and procedures – actually developing [...]
Mathematics can get stale fast. Worksheets age poorly, practice questions start to blur, and enthusiasm for the subject can fade. What we want is a way to make mathematics engaging, make it rewarding, and make it stick. That's where we can use games [...]
