Is your child great in math? Home schooled students aren't eligible to join the National Math Honor Society Mu Alpha Theta, but they ARE eligible to join Mu Eta Sigma. Mu Eta Sigma is a math honor society strictly for homeschooled students.
Requirements for entry into the Mu Eta Sigma Math Honor Society are fairly straight forward:
Joining Mu Eta Sigma looks great on college applications; really, any honor society your child can qualify for helps when applying to colleges. Upon acceptance, your student receives a certificate of membership, and the Honor Society keeps a National Registry of different community service projects done by each member. These can also be listed on high school transcripts that are sent to colleges.
If your child is gifted in math, this is an excellent opportunity! He or she will receive national recognition as well as a multitude of community service opportunities. Both look great on college applications.
If you're looking for some free homeschooling textbooks, I've found some great ones for math and science.
These math and science textbooks are available for grades K-5.
Specifically, the math texts are for first grade through fifth grade. There are also online math activities suitable for Kindergarten through fifth grade. Kids love to play games online (or at least mine do)and the ones available on this site are fun and engaging.
For older kids, there are Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry Books. I wish I had known about this last year when my oldest was learning Geometry!!
There are also science textbooks for first through fifth grade, and science fun for Kindergarten through fifth grade.
Enjoy! :-)
OK, just found this great homeschooling resource! I've often gone looking for math worksheets with a specific math problem set in mind...but haven't been able to find the perfect math worksheet! Sound familiar? Then here's the solution!
Math Master lets you create your own math worksheets! You can choose from the normal operations, fractions, skip counting, even telling time! So if you want to make your own math worksheets, visit Math Master today!
Another great resource for homeschoolers is Super Teacher Worksheets. They offer a wide selection of free worksheets.
I use them for spelling words. They offer free spelling word lists and worksheets for grades 1 through 4. Amber's in second grade, so I get the free worksheets and free spelling word lists for grade 2. I like it because they also have free spelling lists for holidays.
Super Teacher Worksheets also offers different types of free worksheets for English. Free worksheets for English include the following:
If you want some free math worksheets, Super Teacher Worksheets has those too! You can find free worksheets for the following:
As you can see, Super Teacher Worksheets has a great variety of free math worksheets! You can also find fun puzzle worksheets too.
In addition to the great free worksheets, Super Teacher Worksheets offers great tools for teachers and information on all 50 states.
If you are looking for free worksheets for your kids, Super Teacher Worksheets is a great choice! Do you use them? Let me know what you think of the website!
Sometimes it can be difficult to figure out how to teach your preschooler basic math skills. There are workbooks galore that offer different preschooler math activities, but many of them are just that: workbooks. How many 3-4 year olds do you know that want to sit down and actually work in a workbook?
Many preschool math skills are difficult to recognize as math skills: shapes, sorting, and size. I will offer activities that your preschooler will enjoy, and won't even realize he's learning!
Start with basic shapes: square, triangle and circle. These are probably the most basic shapes your child should learn first. Once these are mastered, get into rectangles, diamonds, etc. But for the basic shapes, you can try these preschooler math activities.
If your preschooler eats sandwiches for lunch, alternate between cutting their sandwich into squares and triangles, giving them the choice. My 3 year old loves doing this!
When you're reading a book, going for a walk, playing with toys, just about anything, point out the shapes in the objects around him. For example, look at the square window, or the tires on your car are circles.
Childrens' games such as Candyland are great for shapes AND colors. Have your child tell you what shape the color is in on the cards.
Sorting is an important preschool math skill. It teaches a child how to differentiate between objects, which is one of the first steps to logical thinking. (It's also a great way to keep your child busy and learning at the same time!) Here are a couple of ideas for preschool math activities:
Size, or measuring, is another preschool math skill your child will need to learn. This can include telling the difference between larger, smaller, etc. or arranging objects according to size.
For preschool math activities, there are several different ways to teach your preschooler measuring skills. If your child is sorting money, you can discuss the different sizes, and discuss with him which ones are bigger than the others.
In everyday conversation, introduce the concept: "You are bigger than your baby sister" or "Our car is smaller than that truck" or (if your child is like my son) "Look at the big truck!"
When reading your child a story, introduce these same concepts. "Look at how big Clifford is!" or "Are real birds as big as Big Bird?"
If you know of any other preschooler math activities that are fun for preschoolers, please let me know!
I have started creating my other kids' curriculums for the coming school year. Ashley's math curriculum isn't complete; she's going to take Geometry, and I haven't found a resource for that yet. :-( So in the meantime, I decided to work on the younger kids' math curriculum.
I found a wonderful FREE elementary grades homeschool curriculum that I plan to use for Kiara, Amber and Dakota. The site offers worksheets, lesson plans, even a suggested daily schedule for the lessons.
I think the neatest thing about this free math curriculum is that it teaches in a "cyclical" method. I didn't understand this at first, but basically what it means is that it cycles through each of the several different elementary grades math categories, teaching a lesson from one category the first day, then the next category the second day, and so on. It's actually a good way to teach elementary kids math.
By teaching elementary grades math in this cyclical manner, all the material is fresh in their minds, and by the end of the year, they will have absorbed more of the material. Just my personal opinion of course! ;-)
So if you're looking for free elementary homeschool math curriculum, I highly recommend the CSMP program.
If you check it out, let me know what you think of it!