http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool Homeschool News and Methods For Homeschooling Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:24:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you know that you can now create your own math practice test, history practice tests, or practice tests for any other subject? Using the free service provided by our affiliated site YourPracticeTest.com, you can submit your test data as an Excel spreadsheet and the rest of the work will ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/teaching-math/create-practice-tests/ I had posted before how I thought Saxon Math was a great choice for K-6. I am beyond calling it "great" and now I am expressing my LOVE for this curriculum! And, if there are parents or tutors willing and able to help out, virtually no child will be left ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/teaching-math/love-saxon-math-k6/ After one semester with my 10th grade son in IQ Academy Wisconsin, we must decide what to do next year. And after a lot of thought, we have decided to continue on with IQ Academy with my 10th grade son. We will continue, however, to homeschool our 8th grade son ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/online-high-school/iq-academy/ A friend of mine recently asked me what could be done for a teen struggling with algebra. Could some special instruction or tutoring help? Or perhaps more careful instruction? There is a simple answer: Diligence. What needs to happen at most all levels of math up through perhaps calculus is diligence. ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/teaching-math/dilligence-equals-success-in-math/ Things were going great with Wisconsin IQ Academy. My son was working hard at the subjects, he was keeping up fairly well in most subjects, and he seemed even enthusiastic about some of [caption id="attachment_189" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE"][/caption] the subjects. For example, in his HTML course he is ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/online-high-school/wisconsin-iq-academy/ Some kids have problems with learning their multiplication facts. There are lots of rules or tricks you the teacher or parent can use to help with this like: Stressing that the student practice multiples like 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, etc. Stressing the Commutative Property so the student realizes that 3x9 is ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/teaching-math/multiplication-worksheets/ Did you realize that at a typical community college, the most taken math classes taken by incoming students are Prealgebra and General Math, which are courses matching 5th through 8th grade level topics? See this sample of courses. And, many of the  students taking this class are not 40-something year-olds ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/teaching-math/kids-repeating-math/ My son started his first week with IQ Academy Wisconsin. And for the first time in a long, long time, he loves school and is keeping up! One of the highlights this week was that in his HTML course he was given an assignment to hand code a simple web ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/online-high-school/iq-academy-wisconsin/ All is set for my oldest son to attend IQ Academy, an online curriculum offered by the Waukesha School District of Wisconsin. My son will submit work online and eventually get a diploma from the high school of Waukesha. If this goes well, we will probably have our younger children ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/online-high-school/iq-academy-online-highschool/ I will acknowledge that YouTube has a lot a useful content. But unfortunately, it also has a lot of content that children should not be viewing. So, as a general policy, I do not embed videos from YouTube on any educational type web pages I manage. Instead, I use Teacher ... http://www.schoolinyourhome.com/homeschool/teaching-math/teachertube-safe-youtube-alternative/