Apr 11, 2022 | Diane Stum, Engaging Education
Why are word problems important in elementary school math? What skills does solving word problems help students develop? How do word problems benefit my math student? These are questions many of us ask as we help math students solve word problems. After all, this...
Mar 29, 2022 | Engaging Education, Susan Spraker
Is watching your child struggle in math really such a bad thing? A positive times a positive is positive, a positive times a negative is negative, a negative times a negative is positive. What?? Ughh? Sigh? Head drops to table. To connect this to a personal real-life...
Jan 12, 2021 | Online Homeschool, Susan Spraker
Lately, I have been entranced with spiders. The bigger the better. The furrier the cooler. The more active the more enticing. I start each morning with a hot cup of coffee in hand, go to my window, which I used to think needed an outside washing, and just stare in...
Feb 5, 2019 | Engaging Education, Judy Frank
Math is for Everyone Everyone? Well, maybe not, you might say. Or you might say, “I’m not really a math person.” But I say, yes, everyone! Math is in music, art, crowd control, aviation – if you can think of it, it has a connection to math. I like math because it...