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Living Math – Still Loving It!

Our math curriculum, Teaching Textbooks, is the main source of math learning for our older three children. Kindergartener enjoys Saxon K.

But we also incorporate some living math because…

  • it’s fun!
  • we get to pull out all the board games (e.g., Blokus)
  • adding some logic to your day is nice
  • baking something yummy is math too
  • when the mouse batteries are dead on the computer, we can still get some learning in <——–

Earlier in the week, we made a living math day of it. With everyone together, we:

1. Enjoyed a Popcorn Estimation Experiment from Cindy West’s Loving Living Math. (And afternoon snack). We…

  • rolled two separate pieces of printer paper – one horizontally and one vertically
  • filled each tube up to the top with popcorn
  • wrote down each person’s estimation
  • measured the popcorn from each tube
  • celebrated – most estimations were correct!

2. Rated the day by…

  • first, reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  • asking each person to rate the day, so far, on a scale of -2 to 2
  • making a line graph to represent our scale
  • saying we’d move to Australia  🙂

3. Enjoyed math and science together! Combining nutrition from our science studies and a math suggestion from a free download Cindy shared on her Facebook page, we…

  • read and talked about the food pyramid, vitamins and minerals plus proper nutrition in our AiG Science text
  • gathered a variety of cereal boxes from the pantry, covering the nutrition labels with sticky notes
  • guessed and placed the cereals in order from the one with the most sugar to the least amount of sugar
  • peeked and were surprised at our findings
  • had the older three children plan the meals for the next day, making sure each meal was nutritionally balanced.

THIS was a very fun day of math!

How about you? Do you plan living math days intentionally or because the computer mouse batteries need replacing?

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Tricia faces a daily dose of chaos homeschooling five children. The biggest lesson she’s learned? At the end of the day – when the dishes are put away and the children are tucked in bed – truly what matters is each child’s relationship with the Lord. Raising children is a God-given privilege and, folks, the time is short.

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  1. All Things Beautiful says

    November 10, 2011 at 9:41 AM

    I think I am going to have to get that book! You know I love this kind of learning.

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    • Hodgepodgemom says

      November 10, 2011 at 9:50 AM

      Phyllis – I love all the living math examples you share. And, yes, you will love this ebook 🙂

      Reply
  2. PrairieJenn says

    November 11, 2011 at 9:01 AM

    I love your fun math activities!! We use Teaching Textbooks and Saxon on occasion;)
    Most of our math comes from games (we love games:), cooking, art, remodeling/building, shopping, and logic problems. We just found a book of reprodicible math games at the library that we’re using now. I’ll definitely have to find the book you mentioned. It looks great! Thanks for sharing.

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    • Hodgepodgemom says

      November 12, 2011 at 2:13 PM

      It sounds like you are already enjoying lots of living math in your home. Reproducible math games – from the library- sound great! Here’s my review of Cindy West’s ebook: https://www.thecurriculumchoice.com/2011/09/loving-living-math/

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      • PrairieJenn says

        November 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM

        Thank you!

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  3. Beth says

    December 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM

    What fun ideas you have here – I am totally checking out this book! I am your newest “Liker” I’d love for you to come follow me back, if you want to =-) I also wanted to invite you to link up to TGIF LInky Party
    Beth =-)
    http://www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com

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  4. Christine says

    June 5, 2014 at 11:56 PM

    I have to get this book! Thank you

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