Eclectic Parent

A lot of casual homeschooler say the can wing it, no curriculum, well . . . except for math. Now maybe it’ll be a bit different when they’re older and were facing calculus but for now, math is easy to work in. D and I were in the car today. My cell phone battery was dead and the charger was in the back with him. He was watching the bars blink across the screen as it charged.

“Four bars means it’s all the way charged?” he asked.

“Yes.” Then I decided to ask him a question. “What would it mean if there were two bars?”

“It would be half charged.”

“Yes. So what if there were three bars out of four. How would you say that?”

“Ummm, one half and one quarter.”

I loved this answer. So after telling him he was totally correct, I told him you could also say it as three-fourths or three-quarters.

And after being told three-fourth he had no trouble figuring out what one bar would be.

Talking, it’s how we do almost everything. Ask a question, get an answer. Ask something else. One things leads to another.