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Presents twelve lessons in which students in grades four through eight are challenged to apply a variety of math concepts to problem-solving situations, each with a project description, lesson plan, teaching tips, and related activity sheets.
"Kitten Math made math fun for me. I didn't want it to end!" Ellie, age 8Kitten Math is a delightfully engaging, interactive learning adventure that gets your child EXCITED about math!In this utterly unconventional math workbook, Kelli Pearson brings a full month of irresistible learning adventures to help your child practice and improve more than 10 essential math skills--while having fun.Throughout the Kitten Math journey, your child will understand and apply math to real-world situations, build persistence and a feeling of success in math...and become a pro at fostering and caring for tiny orphan kittens.
In Math Art and Drawing Games for Kids, you’ll find an amazing collection of more than 40 hands-on art activities that make learning about math fun! Create fine art-inspired projects using math, including M. C. Escher’s tessellations, Wassily Kandinski’s abstractions, and Alexander Calder’s mobiles. Make pixel art using graph paper, grids, and dot grids. Explore projects that teach symmetry with mandala drawings, stained glass rose window art, and more. Use equations, counting, addition, and multiplication to create Fibonacci and golden rectangle art. Play with geometric shapes like spirals, hexagrams, and tetrahedrons. Learn about patterns and motifs used by cultures from all over the world, including Native American porcupine quill art, African Kente prints, and labyrinths from ancient Crete. Cook up some delicious math by making cookie tangrams, waffle fractions, and bread art. Take a creative path to mastering math with Math Art and Drawing Games for Kids!
Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features: The integral subjects to be covered within each grade Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level Recommended books to use as texts for every subject Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness
