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Is Teaching Math Making Your and Your Child Cry

Insight to a wonderful curriculum that will encourage your students in math instead of discouraging them. Having a good foundation from the beginning is vital for your child to be successful throughout their education. Listen Now

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Top Ten Myths About Homeschooling Math

How can we know if the mathematical methods we are using will achieve the desired results in our students? In this workshop, Tom Clark will expose ten common myths about teaching math, and then counter those myths with solid, practical help for parents. You will also leave with a checklist of items which can be used to determine the best math course for your students.

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Teaching Mathematics with Art (or is it Teaching Art with Mathematics?)

Can your child’s future really be boiled down to something as simplistic as whether they are right-brained, or left-brained? Surely, as homeschooling parents, we want our children to believe that they are capable of using “both sides” of their brains. In this educational and entertaining workshop, we will explore the natural and logical connections between Mathematics and Art. We will investigate mathematical principles, and see how they are related to, and illustrated by, artistic applications. Likewise, we will explore several artistic concepts, and see how they are based on mathematical ideas. Of course, throughout, the importance of language and communication will be stressed, as it must play a key role in the understanding of both areas.

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December Overview

Since everyone is so busy throughout the month of December, we decided to push the content forward a bit, so you won’t have any new emails or videos to watch over the week of Christmas and New Year’s. To accomplish that, we are publishing the first 2 weeks’ worth of videos today, a two for one, so to speak.

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Teach Your Child Music while Building Their Reading and Math Skills

This class will demonstrate practical hands-on methods for teaching music to your child, no matter what your musical ability is. The class will also show how music builds your child in 5 key areas, including cognitive, social, emotional, physical and musical.

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Beauty and Reason for Mathematics

Most people are not neutral in their feelings towards mathematics.  Either they like it, or they hate it. Join us to see how all of math from arithmetic to calculus can be summarized in three simple charts.   You will walk away being able to see the big picture of mathematics with the perspective that math was created by God, revealing another piece of His picture.

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Teaching Mathematics

Did you know that mathematics has parts of speech and sentence structure, just as does any spoken language? Did you know that understanding the “grammar” of mathematics greatly helps student understanding of problem-solving and applications? In this workshop, Tom clearly and humorously demonstrates this quality of mathematical language. At last, you will truly understand the roles of all types of mathematical symbols, and you will see how easy it is to translate between mathematics and English, enabling you to improve your understanding and teaching of “story problems” at all levels.

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Top Ten Myths About Homeschooling Math

Most homeschooling parents feel uneasy when planning math courses for their children. “We learned our math a long time ago,” or “we learned it a different way,” or maybe “we didn’t learn it at all.” How can we know if the methods we are using will achieve the desired results in our students? In this workshop, Tom will expose ten common myths about teaching math and then counter those myths with solid, practical help for parents. You will also leave with a checklist of items which can be used to determine the best math course for your students.

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Homeschooling Math Without A Plan? You’ve Got To Be Kidding!

Designed to help parent educators, including new homeschooling parents, understand the scope and sequence, and the logic of mathematics instruction, from pre-school through adult. Join Tom Clark as he takes you on a sometimes humorous journey, describing all levels of arithmetic and mathematics courses encountered in high school and college. Attention will be given to the WHY of the study of mathematics, with an emphasis on concept development, instead of rote memorization.

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The 7 E’s For Choosing Curriculum

The 7 E’s For Choosing Curriculum

As an admitted curriculum junkie, Jeannie Fulbright bought everything that sounded good. From A Beka to Hillyer to e-books, she has tried every kind of curriculum and method available. Out of this experience, she has formulated 7 E’s to help her carefully choose curriculum that works for her family.

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