Free American classics study guide
If you have an older homeschool student, be sure to check out Homeschool eStore’s freebie for this week: the American Classics Study Guide.
This collection of references and assignments looks at To Kill a Mockingbird, Death of Salesman, The Crucible, The Glass Menagerie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the poetry of Robert Frost. Students learn the essential themes, issues, characterization and writing style of the texts. There are activities and assignments to choose from, including essay questions, creative responses and projects to complete.
Homeschool eStore offers a free educational ebook each week, and many items are on sale for the month of September. And since this is a math blog, let me point out that Homeschool eStore sells Maria Miller’s excellent Math Mammoth workbooks (also available as individual titles—in Spanish, too).
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Do you know how teach multiplying and division with the crying. I have a little boy that hates math and I’m having a problem teaching these two.
Thanks!
Hi, Katie!
I am sorry to hear that math has become so stressful for you and your son. You don’t say how old he is, but perhaps you may want to back off the math for awhile. With my children, I have had to take a few weeks or months off (still playing games or doing review, but not pushing new topics) several times—the little ones really do have plenty of time to learn.
I hope to write more about multiplication later, but here are a few quick tips:
(1) Understanding must come before memory work. Do not try to force-feed the math facts before your student truly understands what multiplication and division mean.
(2) Make fact practice into a game, as much as possible. Here is one way to make it fun.
(3) Do not spend all your time on “baby” numbers. For instance, while practicing the doubles, throw in a challenge like, “What is 2×34?” or “What would 300×2 be?”
I am working on a site. There are hundreds of free math tutorials already. I am aiming to submit over 1000 video tutorias by the end of 2007. Take a look: Online Math Video Tutorials
Thanks for the ebook link. I don’t have high schoolers yet, but I’ve missed a few of those books myself.