I was really hoping on some down time on our break to be able to post more about the resources I have found through homeschooling my boys. Also, to highlight other bloggers out that that have been an inspiration to me. But like a lot of things around here....they are started but not finished!! My ADD allows me to multi-task like you wouldn't believe but sometimes something more shiny takes the place of those things less shiny:(
So for this post I wanted to highlight some of the importance of fractions... My high schooler still hates to do problems that requires him to use fractions. His own ADHD brain doesn't see a need for them. Until I can get him to realize that YES he needs to know the ins and outs of fractions, they are not going to stick!
Some fraction lessons that work for my visual learner are video lessons like from this site. Of course, there is always YouTube with its mountain of videos at your fingers tips( My personal favorite is Captain Fraction, who saves the day.. half way anyways see the short clip above). Then there are sites that you pay per lesson for like Lesson Planet or AdaptedMind, which has them broken down by grade level. (for those of you that know which grade level your kiddo is at). I felt like my boys received the best lessons in the way of fun, cartoon style lessons from our favorite resource Time4Learning. I even have weeks where we do a math spelling list, this gives us all a refresher on what the math words mean... like denominator is which the bottom number or the top? Not to simplify it too much but honestly if you have a student that could give a flying *&#@ about fractions OR is young do you really start with the long definition?? Maybe you do?
There are a ton of articles to explain the importance of fractions just google the "importance of fractions" and take your pick. What resources do you use for helping your kiddos understand fractions better?
