Math author and long-time homeschooling mother of 5. Through my blog and my books, I want to awaken parents’ and children’s minds to the wonder of mathematics.
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9 Apr 2025
Musings: Math Is a Social Game -- How can we bring this collaboration, this sense of community, into our children's experience of math?
Check out my blog for ideas!
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Tasty Treats from the Moscow Puzzles -- Mathematics with almost no calculations. Have fun playing logic with your kids!
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May 27
Rescuing Cool Math for Older Kids -- two puzzles for upper-elementary to middle school, and two for middle-to-high school.
Have fun playing math with your older kids!
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May 13
Puzzle: A Cross of Cards -- Puzzles can be fun ways to idle away a stormy afternoon. Or they can be doorways into the world of math, invitations to explore.
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Math Game Monday: Sim
Have fun playing math with your kids!
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FAQ: Remembering What We Learn
It’s easy for humans to convince ourselves we understand something when someone else explains it. It seems to make sense, but it doesn't stick in our minds.
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Mar 25
Playful Math 184: Carnival of Living Math -- bringing our children face-to-face with the big ideas of mathematics.
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Mar 18
Discover Math in Art -- a preview excerpt from my new book, Charlotte Mason’s Living Math.
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Math Game Monday: Square Nim
Have fun playing math with your kids!
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Math Prompt: True-False-True
This puzzle pushes students to consider the structure of mathematical expressions. Make it a game by letting your children challenge you, too.
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Math Game Monday: Factors and Multiples
Have fun playing math with your kids!
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Feb 26
Can You Help Me? Check out the preview for my Kickstarter, and let me know if everything makes sense.
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Feb 23
Math Game Monday: Strike It Out
Have fun playing math with your kids!
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Feb 18
Coming Soon: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math -- bringing our children face-to-face with the big ideas of mathematics to help them develop their reasoning skills.
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Feb 16
Math Game Monday: Bowling (Shut the Box)
Have fun playing math with your kids!
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Mental Math: Advanced Multiplication, Part 2
Ratios are the beginning of proportional thinking. We can systematically alter the numbers in a ratio to reach any quantity required by our problem.
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