I'm wondering if anyone here can advise me about maths for my 11 year old. He has science degree aspirations and a kinda maths/science bent on the world, but...
Hi Gythaa, I would suggest going to www.livingmath.net and having a look around, and also joining their yahoo group and posting your question there ...
Hi Gythaa, I don't have any ideas as my teenager never wanted to get into maths the way you are talking about and my other children are young - 6yo and 2yo....
... Workbooks are the kind of things that precipitate serious revolution in these parts! And The Number Devil left my son cold. Thanks for the other ...
Hi Sam Thanks for saying that! Good grief - I sometimes feel like every other home educating family except us must be having amazing experiences all day, ...
Hi Cheri, I have two very good mathematicians in teh house and i'm lousy - so you might enjoy our excursions into higher math. Try the "5 numbers" audio series...
ok got the shodor link http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Fire/? version=1.5.0_06&browser=Mozilla&vendor=Apple_Computer,_Inc. maths is primarily...
Hi Carolyn, I've heard of those videos before but never bothered really to check them out because of their lack of availability here. Can you give me a bit...
... Hi Carolyn, That address is giving a proxy error 'error reading from remote server' Thanks for all those maths links - I'll check them out my eldest DS is ...
Hi everyone, My son's registration renewal is coming up next week and I'm a bit lost for ideas with the programme of study. (I wish now that I'd never ...
Sounds like you are pretty well covered. If your worried you could choose a few bits of work (one or a few from each 'learning area') and add tags. The tags ...
... It will partly depend on which State you are in... Here in WA I'd have a list of resources you are going to utilise over the coming year broken down into...
I hope this doesn't catch on here in Oz: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3854612a10,00.html Txt speak approved for exams 09 November 2006 apparently this...
Just appalling! What are they thinking??? Actually it's ridiculous how often my husband gets asked to explain difficult words or correct spelling at work - and...
They are available at our local library - in a separate section of easy readers, many are properly graded ie have the limited set vocabulary - you can also get...
ROFL - my hubby asked if they are allowed to use txtsp33k in gaelic! yours sincerely, Carolyn Rutter ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hello, I am the mother of a shy, sensitive 4 year old boy and a busy, outgoing 16 month old girl. Currently, we live in eastern Canada and we are probably...
Hi Leigh Anne, Welcome to this list. I am Mum to Jordan (nearly 16), Leilu (6.5yo) and Aalia (nearly 3). We are active in a few groups in Sydney, mostly those...
Hi everyone, Just wanted to say that yesterday we received two years of re-registration no probs! Our experience with the AP has been (same person both times)...
... outgoing ... are ... a ... hard ... the ... community ... Hi Leigh Anne, I'm in Melbourne but would dearly love to stay in touch with you. Our children are...
Thank you so much for the warm welcome, Sam. :) Your children have such beautiful names. We were checking out the Northern Beaches area via internet last...
Hi Leigh-Anne, My husband and I have an 8 yo boy, a 5yo girl, and a 2yo boy, and we live in the outer south-west of Sydney. My husband has just started a new...
oh dear I'll confess - FOOD consumes much of our unschooling :) Now what exactly is this strudel? Should we import them? yours sincerely, Carolyn Rutter ... ...
Hi Melanie :) Wow, I feel so welcomed! When we move, we will bring some Pilsbury Toaster Strudels with us and mail them to you. Hee hee. Like you, I think...
Hi Jenny, Thank you so much for all of the great information. We are just starting to look into where to move. Sydney is such a big city that deciding on...