You can’t hate a subject if your mind is engaged in it. So if a child says “I hate math,” I would try to figure out what his mind is doing. For example, at the lower arithmetic levels, curriculums often spend too much time with memorizing math facts. That is mindless and boring. So parents

Few subjects cause knees to tremble and hearts to pound like that of mathematics. For many of us, the daily struggle through math class was as much a part of our routine as deciding what to wear. When we combine such negative personal experience with the requirement to educate our own children in this area,

The time you will invest in setting up a math facts program will be well worth it. Number lines, charts, counters, and calculators are great tools to introduce addition, subtraction, and multiplication, but the bottom line is that fluency and knowing the correct answers to math facts is essential! If children do not memorize the

As I write these words, the civil war in Sri Lanka rages on, and we’ve been hearing reports of civilians trapped between the warring sides. Some, sadly, have died. There’s a lesson in that: You don’t have to be fighting in a war to become a casualty. So it is in math. Math? What’s math

Using Creation to Build a Solid Foundation Picture this. It’s a beautiful day so you decide to take your homeschool outdoors. You head outside for a nature walk. Is this just for physical education? It doesn’t have to be. No matter where you live around the globe, the study of creation provides a perfect opportunity

TOS: Interest in Singapore Math is exploding in the homeschooling community Welcome to TOS, Jeffery! Can you tell us your background and how you became interested in the program? I understand that your wife, Dawn, is a Singapore native. Is that what sparked the interest, or were there other factors? JT: Our family lived in