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“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” –Arthur Schopenhauer We are dividing and conquering today. Kirby and the children are off to the Museum and I, with perhaps a daughter or two, am off to a Settler’s Sweatshop to sew clothes for a new member of our Living History family. . . . → Read More: We Forfeit Ourselves A few days ago I shared a little from our home school journey with mathematics. Today I want to share a few more specifics. The Workshop Three years ago a local home school association, knowing I was once qualified to teach math, asked me to do a math workshop at a conference. I sheepishly replied . . . → Read More: Informal Mathematics – The Middle Five smelly gi’s plus ten months of hard work plus more uke’s, tsuki’s and kiai’s than we can count equals five brand new yellow belts and five very happy students! ETA: The frames our teachers are holding are a Wordle gift we made. Domo Arigato (the largest word in the middle) is Japanese for . . . → Read More: Yellow Belts Okay, here is the long awaited mathematics post. I love math. More specifically, I love accounting. Really. Nothing makes me feel more uplifted than doing all the banking and budgeting and having all those numbers come out perfectly. I once called the bank to inform them of a number reversal error (it read 21 . . . → Read More: Informal Mathematics – The Beginning …you should take an orienteering map from the Manitoba Orienteering Association and spend a lovely afternoon walking the perimeter of the beautiful Assiniboine Park. |
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