My son is learning Math/Life!!
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I have been reading here for a little while now, and amstarting to feel like
I get the learning from life, deschooled thing. Every once in awhile I get a
schooly thought, and try to banish it from my being!
My son(7) has never been to school, I used to try to get him to do work books
on math , it was met with much resentment and refusal. I tried many things to
force him to do them, I shamed, I jollied, I threatened. It was something I
would pull out sporadically, when I felt anxious about the lack of schooly
things being done. I thought that unschooling was more about having workbooks
around, and he would pick them up and do them on his own.LOLOL
I have stopped that annoying habit, and have been living life with my son
after reading Sandra's site and unschooling.com stuff. He is a cool kid, and
has always loved numbers and math concepts. A few weeks ago, he asked what a
quarter was worth. I said 25 cents, he said that if a quarter was 25 cents,
then the quarter box of rice crispies that was left must 25percent of the
box. YIKES!!!
Just the other day, we are driving to dear Maureen's house, and Tommy is
asking about having his hair colored , and asks how much. I said around 50
bucks.Ds then proceeds to tell me that he will save up his allowance for
that.
"If I save my allowance, it will need to be 10 allowances to make 50
dollars(5dollars every 2 weeks) so that would be 20 weeks. There's 52 weeks
in a year, so that would almost 1/2 a year."
Ok, now I am really impressed with this. The child just gets stuff!! How
wonderful!!
No coercing, shaming forcing to "Do" math . He just gets it.
Yahoo, it works!!
We will continue to live life, and learn in this house!!
Nancy, exultant in BC
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I get the learning from life, deschooled thing. Every once in awhile I get a
schooly thought, and try to banish it from my being!
My son(7) has never been to school, I used to try to get him to do work books
on math , it was met with much resentment and refusal. I tried many things to
force him to do them, I shamed, I jollied, I threatened. It was something I
would pull out sporadically, when I felt anxious about the lack of schooly
things being done. I thought that unschooling was more about having workbooks
around, and he would pick them up and do them on his own.LOLOL
I have stopped that annoying habit, and have been living life with my son
after reading Sandra's site and unschooling.com stuff. He is a cool kid, and
has always loved numbers and math concepts. A few weeks ago, he asked what a
quarter was worth. I said 25 cents, he said that if a quarter was 25 cents,
then the quarter box of rice crispies that was left must 25percent of the
box. YIKES!!!
Just the other day, we are driving to dear Maureen's house, and Tommy is
asking about having his hair colored , and asks how much. I said around 50
bucks.Ds then proceeds to tell me that he will save up his allowance for
that.
"If I save my allowance, it will need to be 10 allowances to make 50
dollars(5dollars every 2 weeks) so that would be 20 weeks. There's 52 weeks
in a year, so that would almost 1/2 a year."
Ok, now I am really impressed with this. The child just gets stuff!! How
wonderful!!
No coercing, shaming forcing to "Do" math . He just gets it.
Yahoo, it works!!
We will continue to live life, and learn in this house!!
Nancy, exultant in BC
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OH MY! Now there's a story. I knew kids did this with reading, but never heard about it with math!
Tim Thomas
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Tim Thomas
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