by Laurie Bluedorn | Jun 7, 2007 | Math
Dear Laurie, We have started math again with Hannah. I have taught her Singapore Math since she was 6, and I have the books 5B and 6A and 6B so I thought that we should continue in the same track. My concern with that decision is two-fold. First, I am not aware how...
by Laurie Bluedorn | May 22, 2007 | Math
Hi Laurie, I was wondering if you have ever considered not having your girls do all the math up through Saxon Advanced Math? Mine CAN do it but there are so many other things they want to be learning and that I want them to learn, it seems sort of silly to take the...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Apr 29, 2007 | Math
Dear Laurie, … I wanted to give a testimonial about your book Teaching the Trivium. Last year my husband and I became very convicted about having our children in school. It was a wonderful Christian school, and I was the 3rd/4th grade language arts teacher. He...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Apr 3, 2007 | Math
The following is a summary of our article Research on the Teaching of Math: Formal Arithmetic at Age Ten, Hurried or Delayed? by Harvey Bluedorn Historically, the age for instruction in arithmetic and mathematics seems to have slowly shifted from age fifteen or later...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Mar 5, 2007 | Math
The Historical Perspective Strange though it may seem at first, it is nevertheless quite clear that addition, subtraction, multiplication and division – comparatively simple operations, which we inflict on our children while they are still quite young – were, in...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jul 31, 2006 | Math
I’m doing my catalog run-throughs, have read Teaching the Trivium again, and am comparison shopping everything on my 28-item list for the coming year. I’ve got 3 boys, 9yo, 7yo and almost 2yo. We did 2 years of Saxon math, but have been much happier with...
