Ron Doerfler, author of the Dead Reckonings Blog, has created an awesome free 2011 mental math calendar called Lightning Calculation. Ron describes this calendar as an interactive calendar for developing abilities in mental calculation. The calendar boasts over 4,000 exercises with most of the answers cleverly displayed so as not to give themselves up too easily. [...]
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Nifty Interactive Math Calendar Makes Unique Gift
Posted by ginac on November 24th, 2010
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Interdisciplinary, Just for Fun, Math 
Tags: Calculation, Calendar, Interactive, Math, Mental calculation, Publishing 
Comments OffHow To Make A Spy’s Secret Code Wheel
Posted by ginac on July 20th, 2010
Spys are cool and mysterious with all of their computer, language, and disguise skills and all of their nifty gadgets. The idea of the spy code wheel is to quickly and randomly choose numbers to substitute for letters when writing a secret note. If you tell the person receiving the note that A=6, then the [...]
Sophisticated Science Gadget How-Tos on Scitoys.com
Posted by ginac on December 31st, 2009
Scitoys.com has an impressive array of science gadgets that kids and adults will enjoy making. The website even has an online store that sells everything you need to make some of the gadgets. However, your local RadioShack should have much of the items needed. What sets this website apart from most other science websites for [...]
Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Eclectic Homeschooling, Electronics, Gifted, Math, Physics, Science Tags: Electronics, homeschool, Science, science projects Comments OffGet Ready for Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day Oct.21
Posted by ginac on October 20th, 2009
Wolfram|Alpha, the online worldwide computation engine is hosting Homework Day on October 21, 2009. There promises to be a lesson plan showcase for all levels (K-12 and beyond), a chance to interact with the Wolfram|Alpha experts, and an amazing line up of thought leaders. The event kicks off online at noon and doesn’t end until [...]
Back to Homeschool: What Does Education Mean to You?
Posted by ginac on August 15th, 2009
As you are gearing up for another year of homeschool after a summer break, take time to consider what the word ‘education’ means to you. According to Webster’s Dictionary, it means : the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or [...]
Posted in Art, Chemistry, Eclectic Homeschooling, Ecology, History, Interdisciplinary, Math, Music, Science Comments OffMath Night: Insightful, Fun and Creative Math Activities
Posted by ginac on August 6th, 2009
Homeschoolers who love learning by doing will love ‘Math Night’. Math Night, supported by National Science Foundation grants, is a very cool concept that engages kids in creative math activities. The Iowa State University Department of Mathematics hosts a wonderful ‘Math Night’ website containing dozens of high-quality concepts, just waiting to be developed into full-fledged [...]
Beautiful Statistics – Hans Rosling’s Gapminder.org
Posted by ginac on July 29th, 2009
Sometimes children assume that the way things are in the world today are the way things have always been and the way things will always be. Gapminder empowers the user to visually manipulate graphs to focus on elements of interest, but definitely shows that things don’t always stay the same in the world, even within [...]
Microsoft Research Makes Feynman Lectures Available for Free
Posted by ginac on July 17th, 2009
Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, makes the Messenger lecture series by physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time. The Messenger Series explains the relation of Mathematics and Physics. If you have ever read any of his books, you will really enjoy seeing and hearing [...]
Key Homeschool Strategy: Make Learning Fun!
Posted by ginac on May 18th, 2009
First, I want to start by noting that the overall strategy of our homeschool ‘curriculum’ is to make learning fun. We can teach some pretty advanced concepts to our young learner if we engage his natural curiosity through play. Our philosophy is that if a student has trouble learning a concept, it is because the [...]
Free Mathematics E-Books
Posted by ginac on March 26th, 2009
Thanks to Twitter, I found this great online free mathematics e-book website. There is quite a nice list, so I suggest homeschoolers check it out before purchasing expensive supplemental texts. Please let us know about your favorite free e-book sites! http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php
