Comments on: Living Math with Factors, Multiples, and Primes

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:07:25 +0000

I am loving your living math series! I am bookmarking this page to come back to. I have Family Math and have been wanting to use it more. Thanks for the inspiration and all the wonderful links! *Ü*
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By: Lainie@ Mishmash Maggie

Lainie@ Mishmash Maggie — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:29:03 +0000

Oh Jimmie thank you so much for posting this! I really need to find these today and I thought I remembered you writing about Living Math and to have a whole post on factors– what a blessing!
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By: Angie in GA

Angie in GA — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:57:13 +0000

Can’t wait to check these resources out! Thank you so much for sharing them!! Be Blessed, Angie in GA
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By: Kris

*Kris* — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:33:09 +0000

Great collection of activities–I’ll be picking several of them for Ds#2 this week. What a wonderful submission to the Hands On Homeschool blog carnival. Thank you!
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By: Rachael in NZ

Rachael in NZ — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:28:28 +0000

Thankyou SO much for this Jimmie. All of the links you have put together help will be very helpful for cementing these concepts with my girls. I know they are going to love playing these games!

By: Christie

Christie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:16:32 +0000

I LOVE these ideas!! My oldest struggles with this area of math. I think we’ll be spending some fun time doing most of these activities you have listed!! Thank you for the post!
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By: keri

keri — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:08:21 +0000

I bookmarked Multiple Matrix… that could help the kids out with reducing fractions.
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By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:29:11 +0000

Thanks for some wonderful ideas. I think we will use some of these for our first week of back-to-school math next week.
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By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:27:45 +0000

Your posts and lenses about living math are very inspiring. I am planning on taking more of a leap into living math this year.
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By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:09:20 +0000

BlessedMomma,
That’s one of the things about living math — it’s not necessarily linear. You don’t really have to have an order for teaching the concepts. It can cycle around, and you can teach things as you have a “need” to know them. So when you’re learning about one math concept and other math concepts are tied in, you can add them them at that time.

There are scope and sequence outlines on the web. I find the Curriculum Focal Points at the National Council of Teachers of Math to be very, very helpful. Or you can use your textbook as a guide for what to teach. I do that too. I look for the “next” topic and then look for hands-on, living ways to teach and explore it.

Have you looked at Math on the Level? I don’t own it, but from what I’ve read, it looks like something you could use with both of your boys.