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Well, we just finished our first week of homeschooling.( M- 7 yrs old, O- 4 yrs old). The first day we created a schedule for a week, full of all different types of activities, as well as a weekly menu. Needless to say, the rest of the week had very little resemblance to what we planned for. The first day we spent too much time on math , trying to get back into the school mood, and the rest of

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This book completely mesmerized me when I was a high schooler. Now I found it again http://www.flyingcircusofphysics.com/, with author's blog etcWhat a wonderful thing.

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Just found that in Tanya's Khovanova blog (http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?page_id=2)Number gossip - try this with your kids : http://www.numbergossip.com/

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Going over non-standard math problems ( math riddles) books, I notice that they do repeat from book to book. Some of the problems are really ancient, they come to us from the indian and arabic tales, old monastery textbooks, etc. This makes me think that1. they are non-trivial in any educational system2. they tell us something about our brain3. it is not trivial to come up with this type of

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There are different problems that involve cutting. This one is a good one for young kids: how many pieces you could get while cutting a pie with 3 straight cuts? ( try to find all the solutions)My kids were happy to explore this, even my 4 year old.

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Here are some links I find useful:Math Kangaroo OlympiadAIMS Educational FoundationNational Associations of Math CirclesPuzzles.comThe Logic ZoneNational Library of Virtual ManipulativesLos Alamos Mega Mathematics Project BrainboostersYoung Inventors' CompetitionsTryEngineering.org GamesRockville Consortium for ScienceKids Science ChallengeDiscovery Education

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Yesterday my 7 year old daughter told me that there are digits she loves, and digits she hates. There are also digits that are so-so.So, we assigned each digit a score ( -1,0 or 1) and tried to analyse long numbers with those scores.For example, she says that she loves 5, hates 7 and is OK with 4.Will she love 5547? ( yes, t0tal score is 1+1+0-1=1)Will she love 7745474?And so on.We had a lot of

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This is my first blog :)I hope to learn more about math outside the classroom, homeschooling bright kids and new approaches to education, especially critical thinking and logic development.Julia

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