I think that's an important idea to take out an examine. Would you
feel as comfortable saying:
"I don't ever think of reading as *fun*, never did in school and
still don't now. Perhaps that's why my kids don't either;o)"?
Some people hold onto the fear that kids need schoolish math to learn
math. They need to experience their kids learning math by living life
to pry those virtual textbooks from their mind's grasp.
But some people are so damaged by math in school, the idea that they
don't ever have to do math with their kids because kids will learn
math by living life is like a great weight lifted.
That's not good either! For unschooling to flourish we should embrace
a curiosity about the world—and the world includes relationships,
comparisons and other uses of math.
Unschooling is *much* harder than school at home because it takes a
great deal of self examination and change in ourselves to help our
kids and not get in their way!
Joyce
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"The way to learn math naturally is to let it be a natural part of everything, like it is, and not make such a point of it all the time." —Linda Wyatt
Don't pass your fears and prejudices on to your children!
Go back to the math page and breathe and read it calmly. It's not about school math. It's about patterns and games and laughter.
Unschoolers and Math
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