Homeschooling By Principles (Not By Rules)

When we are rule-oriented we tend to make things TOO HARD or TOO EASY. Plus, we are also inconsistent. A better way to go in Homeschool (and life) is to learn to be Principle-Oriented. This video explains the game of thinking in principles.

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These videos are for homeschoolers and other educators who care about growing independent learners; students who learn the basics skills involved in learning how to learn.

[kjlehman]

Okay since we are talking about math... 😅 I have a 15-year-old that started last school year doing teaching textbooks algebra. She struggled with it and the farther she got, the lower her score became.

Up until high school we used a different math program, that I would check daily, but since teaching textbook does the checking for you, I unfortunately let it slide until she was rather lost. We ended up just stopping with algebra for the year and spent the rest of the year doing other math problems, but not algebra. I realized that I am to blame with this, I should have walked alongside her and worked through it with her, but I didn't. Math is not her strong suit, at least not algebra. What would your advice be for the coming year? Do we start that program over? Di we pick up where she started struggling and work through it with her.... that that doesn't always go well. Do I try a new algebra program with her? or do we just skip algebra altogether and do more of a consumer math? She still has 3 years of school left, so there's plenty of time to work things out.

[FredRayLybrand]

Sorry I haven't responded... I will soon. Hang in there :-)