Comments on: Math~ Friend or Foe? http://shipfullofpirates.com/2009/03/math-friend-or-foe/ Tue, 22 May 2012 12:30:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: MotherHen http://shipfullofpirates.com/2009/03/math-friend-or-foe/#comment-3629 MotherHen Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:57:49 +0000 http://shipfullofpirates.com/?p=4028#comment-3629 Strangely, I am finding that as long as I keep the pressure off, the Pirates are all coming around to loving math. They all start out as math haters. Seems like it all starts gelling at around age 11 or 12. There has got to be something else I can do for them before that point, to make it more fun, and natural. Maybe it's more to do with emulating their Dad (a total math head). Strangely, I am finding that as long as I keep the pressure off, the Pirates are all coming around to loving math. They all start out as math haters. Seems like it all starts gelling at around age 11 or 12. There has got to be something else I can do for them before that point, to make it more fun, and natural. Maybe it’s more to do with emulating their Dad (a total math head).

]]> By: Cyndi Lewis http://shipfullofpirates.com/2009/03/math-friend-or-foe/#comment-3626 Cyndi Lewis Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:03:58 +0000 http://shipfullofpirates.com/?p=4028#comment-3626 Math... love it or hate it. I have two kiddos who adore math and fly through it and one who struggles like I did with it. I find because I have never "liked" math that my teaching of it isn't as heavy as subjects I like such as History and geography. My twelve year old gives up tears daily as she tries to "get" division and my eight year old son has his multiplication facts down in two weeks. (Something that took my above daughter months.) On the reverse, said daughter can read through books for pleasure with great fastness and said son would rather endure Chinese water torture then pick up a book for "fun". <abbr><em>Cyndi Lewis’s last blog post..<a href="http://modernchristianhomestead.blogspot.com/2009/03/making-your-home-haven.html" rel="nofollow">Making Your Home A Haven</a></abbr></em> Math… love it or hate it. I have two kiddos who adore math and fly through it and one who struggles like I did with it. I find because I have never “liked” math that my teaching of it isn’t as heavy as subjects I like such as History and geography. My twelve year old gives up tears daily as she tries to “get” division and my eight year old son has his multiplication facts down in two weeks. (Something that took my above daughter months.) On the reverse, said daughter can read through books for pleasure with great fastness and said son would rather endure Chinese water torture then pick up a book for “fun”.

Cyndi Lewis’s last blog post..Making Your Home A Haven

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