mama25angels Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Do you use them over the summer? Do you have a set day during the year that you use as a living math day? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Oh wow! We adore living math books in this house. I have a bit of a problem as I can't seem to stop myself from aquiring them:) For Christmas we did TWO book trees: one with a Christmas theme and one with living math books (since my kid asked for them for Christmas anyway!). I ended up with so many in the living math themed tree that I wrapped them in sets of two...so every day of December she got two new ones that we read that day:) Usually I try to find one either from our collection or the library that focuses roughly on what we are doing in math. That one will be read at 'school time.' Afternoons for read aloud time we do whatever chapter book we are doing, and then some Life of Fred. Bedtime reading: we dedicate an hour to reading at night and along with a motley collection of picture books, classic children's lit, etc., we do at least one living math book of her choice, 1-2 non-fiction science, a bit from a history/biography. She often chooses to take more 'fun math' (often Penrose) to bed for flashlight reading time. I definitely should say she is the only child! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristenR Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 We generally leave Fridays as our Math Play Day where I change from our normal math lessons. Living books, games, videos, etc. Also, I just stumbled across this awesome looking math living book and just added it to my wishlist. Has anyone read it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama25angels Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 We generally leave Fridays as our Math Play Day where I change from our normal math lessons. Living books, games, videos, etc. Also, I just stumbled across this awesome looking math living book and just added it to my wishlist. Has anyone read it? I have not read it, but I've heard great things about it from people who have, I'm thinking of adding it to my wish list also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smfmommy Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The Mathematicians are people too series almost made my math hater(but history lover) interested in higher math. :) Great series. I tend to mix them into our read aloud time but don't really schedule them as part of Math time unless we really need a break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Our math read-aloud happens after we finish the written math work for the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Right now we are doing 30 min official math, 30 min living/fun math (currently working through Math for Smarty Pants which ds LOVES) and then some kind of math game. So, we're doing a lot of math but we're feeling the math love again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llifeon18wheels Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I just found this website. Oh, I like it! http://www.livingmath.net/Home/SiteIndex/tabid/368/language/en-US/Default.aspx Sorry, using my phone so I hope link works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsmm Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 We just read them whenever. I tend to have several checked out at a time. They don't coordinate with what we are learning necessarily. We do them throughout the day or at bedtime. My kids don't think they are part of school. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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