Posted in The Learning Curve, Education, Homeschool, Mathematics on Feb 5th, 2008 Discussion »
Recently I was looking through a second or third grade math text and was pretty amazed to find that it contained about four months worth of calculator lessons. Well, they called it something cooler than that but it was basically lessons on “how to operate a calculator.” So really, how many seven-year-olds need four months […]
Posted in Education, Mathematics, Media on Aug 14th, 2007 Discussion »
Video games are sweeping the nation. I couldn’t believe just how popular the new Nintendo system was this last Christmas. It reminds me of a few years back when I was at a store and a new video game had been released and a boy was hovering by the demo console in the store. When […]
Posted in The Learning Curve, Mathematics, Science on Jan 31st, 2007 Discussion »
Ronnie L. from Houston wrote:
I have three kids and they all hate math and science. I was never good at them and neither was my husband and the schools are not helping. We want them to go to college, but don’t think theyll get in unless they get their grades up. How can we help […]
Posted in Education, Homeschool, Mathematics on Nov 16th, 2005 Discussion »
When I was nearly four years old, my father received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and since that time he has been a professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University. On June 30th, 1995, he retired, was granted emeritus status for the maximum three years, and then continued to […]
