I’ve talked about summer learning loss before. Summer slide, or brain drain, is a real thing, folks. How can you combat it without making your children miserable? Well, if you think outside of that proverbial box, learning is everywhere!

I know you’re thinking, “But what about MATH?!” I know, I know. The word math can strike fear into many people. I, like you, have grappled with varying levels of math anxiety over the years. I’m here to tell you that you can get over it. I’ve never had as much fun with math in my entire life as I have during the past year homeschooling.

Yup. I just said it: I think math is fun.

Today, I’m hanging out with The Educated Mom, the official blog of Mindprint Learning, where I’m sharing the very moment that I realized math wasn’t so scary. Head on over there to check it out and be sure to let me know what you think! And, stay tuned for my second post in this series, which focuses on those reading and writing skills!

10 Creative Ways to Keep Math Skills Sharp This Summer

Tell me, folks, how do you encourage math over the summer? We love living math books, games, and multiple other resources including these three favorites:

Bedtime Math (a 3-book series, each offering three levels of challenge so that your entire family can participate)

Life of Fred series

Beast Academy: graphic-novel-style textbooks from the folks at AoPS!

Follow Cait Fitz @ My Little Poppies’s board Math on Pinterest.

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley

Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three amazing children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. You can read about all of these things and more at My Little Poppies.

Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Raising Poppies, a community for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool and GeekMom. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, and Scary Mommy. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram
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