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Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club
Manage episode 419638228 series 3086653
276: Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club
My guest, Haley Story, has built a thriving homeschool math club and taught children that math can be fun. Haley was on episode 243 where she talked to us about Math Contests
These are the questions Haley answers in this episode:
1. Why did you start a math club
2. How did you get the word out
3. What do you do during math club? What resources do you use?
4 How many attend and how do you cope with the different ability levels.
5. How do you make it fun
Resources used in the Math Club
- The National Math Club by Mathcounts
- Art of Problem Solving – for advanced students and for contest prep
- Logic puzzles and warmups: Critical Thinking Company
- Challenge problems: practice contests from Noetic
- Problem of the Week from Mathcounts
- Beast Academy for younger students
- Math Is Fun
- Math board games, dice games, and card games
Board games that are NOT “math games” but that do a great job of teaching math
- For Sale
- Incan Gold
- SET!
- Farkle
- Quixx
- Nertz/ Dutch Blitz
- 6 Nimmt – original German Version, US version
- Skyjo
Join our Facebook Group, especially for the listeners of this podcast! You can ask questions and get advice as you try integrating technology into your homeschool.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and give a rating and maybe even a review! Subscribing will help you make sure you never miss an episode
The post Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.
300 episodes
Manage episode 419638228 series 3086653
276: Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club
My guest, Haley Story, has built a thriving homeschool math club and taught children that math can be fun. Haley was on episode 243 where she talked to us about Math Contests
These are the questions Haley answers in this episode:
1. Why did you start a math club
2. How did you get the word out
3. What do you do during math club? What resources do you use?
4 How many attend and how do you cope with the different ability levels.
5. How do you make it fun
Resources used in the Math Club
- The National Math Club by Mathcounts
- Art of Problem Solving – for advanced students and for contest prep
- Logic puzzles and warmups: Critical Thinking Company
- Challenge problems: practice contests from Noetic
- Problem of the Week from Mathcounts
- Beast Academy for younger students
- Math Is Fun
- Math board games, dice games, and card games
Board games that are NOT “math games” but that do a great job of teaching math
- For Sale
- Incan Gold
- SET!
- Farkle
- Quixx
- Nertz/ Dutch Blitz
- 6 Nimmt – original German Version, US version
- Skyjo
Join our Facebook Group, especially for the listeners of this podcast! You can ask questions and get advice as you try integrating technology into your homeschool.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and give a rating and maybe even a review! Subscribing will help you make sure you never miss an episode
The post Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.
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