Summer Camps for Kids!

Summer Camps

Are you looking for a fun adventure for a child in your life? Are you hoping to keep up the math skills during the summer? Have you wished that your kids could play math with other like minded kids? Do you love the idea of a camp, but hate the daily driving? Good news! NaturalMath.com […]

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Making Rice & Understanding Circumference

pot of rice

Rice and circumference go together? Why, yes, they do! Yesterday, I was playing with the Going in Circles spark from the Inspired by Calculus class with my online class and my children. We did this activity. We had so much fun verifying that the difference in the lengths of string was really the same no […]

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Poetry and Graphing Lines

Graph poetry

I recently struggled to understand limits in Calculus. One math problem in particular made me really unsure of what I was doing. I ended up asking Maria to help me understand the limit as x approached infinity. As she and I played around with similar graphs and functions on the graphing site Desmos.com, I began […]

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One Family’s Math Story

Math has been an interesting journey at our house. We homeschool and my oldest daughter taught herself to read at about 4 ½. Learning came really easily to her and she loved it! She loved all the school things that looked like school. But then we hit a roadblock – math. I had pretty strong […]

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