I have been struggling lately to get my youngest to be excited about math. This scares me because I really, really don't want them to check out of math and not think it is fun or at the very least important and doable.
Games are always a good way to make something more fun. We use workbook or text style curriculum for both math and grammar but sometimes they need a break from the same old-same old. So, I have a couple that we have been enjoying recently.
For math we like Monopoly and other classic games but I recently purchased Math Dice to use with my eldest for multiplication but it can be used for far more than that, we can use it for any mathematical process we want; adding, subtracting, multiplication, division, powers and you can make the rules to suit any learning level.
This word game, Bananagrams, has turned out to be a hit for the boys. They like the simplicity of making small words and being able to go backward and forward, up and down.
I am planning on hopefully implementing more of a "station" type of learning environment where they get to choose what they want to do with each subject while at that station. I think this will reduce power struggles and let them explore the subject matter more at their own pace.
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