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Nspire (no, that’s not a typo) Students in Science and Math

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Texas Instruments is one of the leading companies helping teachers. Students learn science concepts in a deeper, more engaging way. Nspire provides ready-to-use lessons that cover essential science topics. Build a more profound understanding of the math concepts. Many research websites show it is tough to learn.  Nspire offers an easy, accurate, and inexpensive way to get students started with real-world data collection. We were actually given a TI-Nspire CX CAS handheld graphing calculator and an Continue reading →

What Learn To Mod Really Teach Kids Other Than Programming?

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Everyone has heard about Minecraft, and if you are an Unschooler you have probably played it more than once. Ok, if you are older than eight and homeschooled, you are probably addicted to the game and have had many conversations with your parents asking if you were going to do anything else today.  So the question is: Is it ok if your child plays Mine Craft all day, every day? The answer you keep reading Continue reading →

We studied Geometry by playing Pirate Putt-Putt math

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We studied Geometry by playing Pirate Putt-Putt math . The kids learned about studying angles, points, lines,  all by playing Pirate Putt-Putt. We went through one time completely.  Then McKenzey had to go potty so we went the second by skipping ahead. We jumped ahead of a lot of people.  The girls both got holes in one so the nice owner gave us 2 free games. After some Putt-Putt math I let the girls each get Continue reading →

Origami great way to learn unschool math

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We took Uncle Tom’s advice and tried doing some origami.  First you need thin paper, not construction paper, so you can do the folds. And you need a really good origami app on your iPad 2, or a book that gives really good illustrations of what you need to do. We only had the instruction book and an app, but the paper was way too thick.  So we only made a frog… We also went Continue reading →

Marshmallow Math

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Geometry or shape building Marshmallow Math involved sticks and marshmallow and making lots of shapes.  We decided to make shapes out of marshmallows and pretzel sticks. Munchy Marshmallow Math turned out to be a fort, which she decided to eat some of before I noticed. Belle’s was a long snake made out of triangles and then it became the moat for the castle. After that we painted the wood shadow box that our Nana gave us for Continue reading →