My homeschooled kids can’t get through a math worksheet. No, really. Not one single worksheet. If they solve one algorithm or word problem, that’s it. My 10 year old will even get bored 75% through reading a word problem. He’ll blurt out the answer, and never even bother to write out the solution. This issue lasted about 3 days in our first year of home education before we employed the solution: I stopped teaching math.
Instead, our kids just lived alongside us, as we lived our lives as business people and entrepreneurs. Luckily we took to home education freedom very quickly and soon abandoned all things schooly – especially when it came to math. Though not our initial intention, abandoning conventional math opened us up to real-world entrepreneurial internships that our kids relish.
We played many games together. We did it just for fun, not for homeschool. But because we didn’t have to report to a ringing bell every 55 minutes or need to show up with no. 2 pencils at any particular place, we sort of gave in to our board game vice and played constantly. Besides Monopoly, we played The Wonder Number Game, Sum Swamp, Dino Math Tracks, Pay Day and Money Bags.
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We played many games together. We did it just for fun, not for homeschool. But because we didn’t have to report to a ringing bell every 55 minutes or need to show up with no. 2 pencils at any particular place, we sort of gave in to our board game vice and played constantly. Besides Monopoly, we played The Wonder Number Game, Sum Swamp, Dino Math Tracks, Pay Day and Money Bags.
