One of the biggest fears homeschooling parents have when it comes to teaching their children math is...fractions. Fear not. Follow these steps for how to teach fractions and you will be on your way to a tear free fraction journey. Warning! No matter how old your student is, don't skip one of the steps. *Please Note: This post contains affiliate links which help support the work of this site. Read our full disclosure here.* This is a Keep Reading...
Division Debate: Do Kids Need Long Division?
Teaching long division. Can you imagine anything more painful in homeschooling? The child staring at the problem with tears in their eyes thinking, "I will never understand this." And there's the mom who has explained for what feels like the 100th time thinking, "Why can't they get this?!" What if I told you that you don't have to teach long division? In fact, I don't teach it to my children and I never worried about it in the classroom. If Keep Reading...
Visual Equivalent Fractions Game Printable {FREE}
When developing fraction sense, this is an essential part of any fraction unit. When students understand this concept it can help them compare fractions and even order them. It will even help students simplify fractions. What is it? Equivalent fractions! And like most concepts, there are numerous ways to teach it. Today I want to share a fun and simple equivalent fractions game printable that incorporates multiple Keep Reading...
Deepening Fraction Sense with Fractions Area Models
As we continue our series on developing fraction sense, hopefully by now you are feeling a little more confident and equipped. Learning about fractions doesn't have to be scary, and it doesn't have to mean hours of pencil and paper computations. Instead, the focus should be on deep understanding, using concrete, visual models. Today, I want to share a powerful visual, which students can use to compare, add, subtract, multiply and divide Keep Reading...
Developing Fraction Sense Using Benchmark Fractions
In the early years, a child's math education should focus on developing number sense. In other words, helping them to understand numbers in lots of different ways, and to be fluid in how they use numbers and work with numbers to solve problems. As kids progress through school, they begin to be introduced to fractions. And since fractions are in fact numbers, we want kids to be as fluent and comfortable using and manipulating fractions as they are Keep Reading...
FREE Simple Printable Division Games {1-2 Digit Divisors}
How did you learn long division? Did your teacher drill the steps in your head? Was a fun song or chant involved? Or did your teacher write problem after problem on the board, while you copied them down? This wonderful math skill can be a struggle for many students. Long divison can be, well....long (guess the name clearly states that), and it can be tedious! We can't get around the longness of long division, or the fact that the steps seem to go Keep Reading...
{Free} Summer Math Calendars for Grades K-5
The time is here. The joyful sounds of children finally free from the daily routine of school and homework. They're ready for fun, sun-filled days of freedom and a lack of responsibility. And rightly so--they're kids, and they need freedom to play and explore, get messy and get bored. But you also know that with those long Summer days comes the Summer slide. A regression or loss of all that valuable learning that took place during the school Keep Reading...
Simple, Hands On Coordinate Graphing Worksheet
Plotting points on the coordinate plane is one of those concepts that seems so simple, yet can be so challenging for kids who are just learning. Yet this is a crucial skill if kids are to be successful in higher level math! While this means it's going to require a lot of practice for kids to get the hang of it and feel confident, it doesn't mean that practice has to be boring. Today, I want to share some fun and simple ideas for graphing using a Keep Reading...
Simple Multi Digit Multiplication Game {FREE}
Multiplying two digit and three digit numbers! There are a lot of steps. It can be quite confusing! And it requires a ton of practice for many students to master. But no student wants to spend hours practicing multiplying two digit numbers over and over. We don't want that for our kiddos either, so here is a fun multi digit multiplication game that gets children practicing multiplying two and three digit numbers. *Please Note: This post Keep Reading...
Decimals on a Number Line Game that Kids LOVE!
It is always exciting when we start a new math unit! There is something invigorating about knowing we have completed a chapter, and that its time to learn something new. This new unit introduces my oldest to two new concepts: large numbers up to a million, and understanding decimals. We have had a blast reading about, exploring, and playing games with large numbers and now it is about time to move onto decimals. Like any new concept, it is Keep Reading...
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