Teaching homeschool math without fear or tears.

Developing A Sense of Place Value: Gattegno Textbook 2

Instead of taking a brief stab at all the concepts I covered in my last post regarding Gattegno's Mathematics Textbook 2, I will dedicate a blog post to each concept and show you where Gattegno is going

Starting Points: Building Story Problems

I was reading a blog post recently about how 90% of students dislike story problems. Parents ask me about this in email and it came up in my old Facebook group. What do we do about story problems and how

MATHCamp: Avoid The Brain Drain

Summer slide is real and from all accounts, pretty serious. The reading slides are fairly easily remedied, get yourself to the library and get some good books to read. But what about math? Who wants to

Substitution Game – Forget the Worksheets

If you get nothing from Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1, other than what I'm going to show you in this post, your students understanding of mathematics and numbers will be dramatically increased.

Mastering Addition and Multiplication Concepts with Cuisenaire Rods

In this post, I am continuing the work on Gattegno's Textbook 1, chapter 4. We are partway through our study of the number 5. We've parked ourselves in the middle of a long section that is dealing with

Number 4 and Number 5 Study

This post continues our study of Gattegno’s Mathematics Textbook 1, chapter 4, starting with exercise 5 where we begin the study of the number 4. If you’ve just stumbled upon my blog, you can

Structure, Cuisenaire and Gattegno

We are going to take a break from our scheduled post on Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1 for a small detour into how Gattegno uses Cuisenaire Rods to assist a student with understanding the structure of

Number – Introduction With Cuisenaire

We have finally entered the world of number with Cuisenaire Rods. We are in chapter 4 of Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1, covering the first four activities. If you have stumbled upon my blog at this post,

Play, Discover, Learn Cuisenaire Review

My friend Lacy, from Play, Discover, Learn; has been making products that are meant to be an easy entrance into the world of Cuisenaire Rods and Gattegno. I purchased one of her packets from her TPT site,

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