Though the boys have officially finished their math workbooks for the summer, I still encourage them in their math skills with our whiteboard math problems. I recently found the "Giant Book of Math Fun" by Raymond Blum at a book sale. It's filled with various types of fun math problems to get kids thinking. Every few days I choose one that's conducive to being written on a whiteboard and let them have fun with it. Marty usually enjoys figuring out the problem as well. It's been fun AND educational - I heard Marty giving Ben a little talk about algebra the other night in relation to that day's whiteboard problem. Check out library book sales and discount stores for these types of math books - they're usually very inexpensive and make math virtually painless!
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Julie: It doesn't matter how it's packaged -- math and fun are not correlative. You could dust it with sugar and dip it in coffee but I still wouldn't bite -- okay maybe just a nibble. A
Reading back over the post, I didn't realize how often I used the word "fun"! Anyway, I would have to agree with you in regard to math not being fun. However, Ben and Marty especially seem to have a good time with the whiteboard problems. What if I did a whiteboard problem where you try to find the grammar mistakes - any better tasting?!
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