Let’s chat homeschool math.
If you’re anything like me, you sometimes worry about math. (Okay, maybe it happens more than just sometimes.)
Maybe you also have a child who dissolves into a mushy mess of a person when faced with a math workbook. (I sure do!)
Perhaps you have weekly math-related power struggles.
You are not alone.
Today, I am sharing some of our favorite resources so that you can make homeschool math less stressful and more fun!
The Best Math Resources for Your Homeschool
Fantastic resources for homeschool math
We all know what we are supposed to do if we want to raise readers, right? (If not, check out my most favorite parenting book ever.)
Here are a few strategies to promote early literacy:
- Read aloud early and often
- Raise the child in a print-rich environment
- Make early reading experiences pleasurable
- Follow the child’s interests
- Be a reading role model
What if we take those same principles and apply them to mathematics?
- Play with math early and often
- Raise the child in a math-rich environment
- Make early math experiences pleasurable
- Follow the child’s interests
- Be a math role model
It makes sense to me that, by creating multiple pleasurable early math experiences, one could raise children who enjoy math.
Do you want to add more awesome math resources to your homeschool day?
Today, I am sharing some of our family’s favorite enjoyable math resources.
If you are looking for more ways to make math fun, check out these resources for parents:
- Family Math by Jean Kerr Stenmark
- Let’s Play Math by Denise Gaskins
- Math for Smarty Pants by Marilyn Burns
- Math Geek Mama Site
Amazing math books for your homeschool
I am continually amazed by the growth I see in my children when I add high-quality picture books to our existing curriculum.
- 10+ Math Picture Books Your Kids Will Love
- Delightfully Fun Math Books for Children
- If You Read Your Kids a Math Book…
- Homeschooling Math: 10 Ways to Keep it Fun!
Here are some of our family’s favorite math books:
Gameschooling with awesome math games
Gameschooling helps with math. Big time. I promise!
- Gameschooling: The Best Math Games for Your Homeschool
- 10+ Amazing Math Games for Your Homeschool
- 6 Amazing Math Games
- Dabble in Algebra and Physics with ThinkFun’s Balance Beans
Here are some of our family’s favorite math games:
Don’t forget about logic!
I love that we can include logic in our homeschool- mostly because I love logic. (I just can’t get enough!)
Here are some of our favorite logic resources:
- Gameschooling: The Best Logic Games for Your Homeschool
- Logic Games for Your Homeschool
- Improve Quiet Time with Educational Logic Games
- Cat Crimes: A Purrfect Logic Game for Cat Lovers
- Lunar Landing: A Zero-Gravity Logic Game!
- Fold-It: A New Logic Game by ThinkFun
- Kaleidoscope Puzzle: A Color Mixing Logic Game
Our homeschool math curriculum
Okay, here we go! This year we have been using the following…
My 4th grader uses:
My 2nd grader uses:
My 1st grader uses:
All three kiddos will dabble in:
Our homeschool curriculum choices, by year
I get a lot of questions about our curriculum choices. You can read more here:
Additional math resources for your homeschool
- My Kids Have Fallen Head Over Heels for Smartick Math
- Art of Problem Solving is an excellent resource for gifted kids who love math!
- A Gifted Math Curriculum for Your Little “Mathemagician”
- CTC Math: Online Learning for Homeschoolers
Gifts for the math lover in your life
Do you want to see our homeschool in action?
I get a lot of questions about our curriculum choices. You can read more here:
- Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices Year by Year: Resource Page
- Homeschool Curriculum: How to Ditch the Schedule and Embrace a Lifestyle
These are great– thank you! I finally just recycled the math book that had been recommended to me, since it was the correct age, but not the correct level for my son. It took me a while (too long) to ditch it, since I was determined we could just breeze through it, and then I’d know he hasn’t missed anything, but he was (predictably) very bored. I’ve just ordered Beast Academy, but I noticed you don’t use it as a stand alone. Is it more supplemental? I’m still figuring this out 🙂 And thanks again for all the fantastic resources!
I use it as a stand-alone. Beast, in my opinion, is actually MORE than one year of math. It’s fun and challenging and teaches children to think differently about math.
I would definitely recommend checking out Christina Tondavold and her Build Math Minds community. She is fantastic!
We got Beast Academy on your recommendation, and I LOVE it. I can’t say enough good things about it. It’s such a thoughtful unique way of approaching math. I learn something every chapter we do. Our other favorite math resource is Math Antics (www.mathantics.com). Math Antics has videos presenting various math concepts, and the guy who does them explains very clearly and is silly and funny at times which my son loves.
I am so glad you love it, Cheryl! I am going to check out these videos. Thank you!
I can’t figure out if it’s on my end or the other end; but when I first read through this about 20 minutes ago the amazon link/pictures for the math books you recommend was there (math curse, sir cumference, etc) now it only shows and links to the games you recommend.
Hoping to get it figured out if it’s on my end; I wanted to come back and for sure see the title of the cat one (after I just went over and read the Cat Crimes post).
I’m not sure where you were, but maybe you meant the Peg + Cat math picture books or perhaps Penrose the Mathematical Cat.
I noticed you listed multiple math curriculum for each child. Which do you use as you main math curriculum? I am wanting to switch, for my right-brained 2e daughter, and I am wondering if j should go with Math U See or Beast Academy. More to MUS, since its5whay everyone seems to reccomend/use. But my inner need has fallen in love with Beast Academy and I think my daughter just may, as well, b uh t I haven’t heard of it anywhere else. Thanks!
Our core curriculum this year is Beast Academy Online for my younger two (ages 8 and 10) and Art of Problem Solving for my 11-year-old. Hope this helps!
I don’t see any content here? Grateful for the comments since that gives me a little direction, but curious if this was just an old post and no longer valid? Thanks!
Hi Heather!
SO WEIRD. I have my tech person on it. The content is there but isn’t showing. Thank you so much for letting me know!
Cait
Our kids have fallen in love with Numberblocks, it’s a TV show from the UK….but is available on Netflix and Youtube. AND they just came out with new episodes revolving around multiplication and division.
So fun!!