This week’s Homeschool Math Chat question is, “What’s the best way to tutor/teach your own children?”
We do two Homeschool Math Chats per week to cover the world:
- Tuesdays at 8:30pm CST (Houston time) (click here for your location’s time)
- Fridays at 9am BST (London time) (click here for your location’s time)
What is Homeschool Math Chat?
It’s a tweet chat for parents kids of math-learning age – homeschoolers in particular, afterschoolers too. It’s hosted by MathFour.com’s Bon Crowder (@mathfour) and Bright Brain Studio‘s Beth McKeon (@beth_mckeon).
We share tips and tricks to teach math to kids of all ages and in all settings. The goal is to get everyone on the positive math track – starting with the grownups.
Oh, and engineers and mathematicians jump in to provide support too!
Here’s how to join the party…
You need a Twitter account. If you don’t have one click here to get one.
You’ll need a way to follow #HSMath separately from your other tweets (or you’ll go nuts). Some options are:
- TweetChat – this types the #HSMath tag and follows the stream
- TweetDeck – for Desktop, iPhone or iPad, you’ll have to add the #HSMath hashtag yourself
- HootSuite – Good service, but you’ll have to add the #HSMath hashtag yourself on this one too
- TweetGrid – a web-based dashboard that’s also an app for some smartphones, again you’ll need to add #HSMath on each tweet
The first one gets you most directly to where you need to be to participate. If you have questions or are panicked, send me a note via twitter by clicking here.
And if you have a chance, please support Homeschool Math Chat by voting to give us authority and tweeting to your friends.
Transcripts and Topics of #HSMath Twitter Parties
September 20 and 23, 2011 – What’s the best way to tutor/teach your own children?
September 13 and September 16, 2011 – What’s your curriculum and what are your challenges?
May 5, 2011 - ”Math students with and without engineer parents”
April 28, 2011 – “Living Math”
April 21, 2011 – “Math in Museums – Field Trips and Vacations to Support Math Learning”
April 14, 2011 – “Math Games”
April 7, 2011 – “Math Tools – Fingers, Calculators, Abacuses, Slide Rules, etc.”
March 31, 2011 – “When should you teach what?”
March 24, 2011 – “How do you teach real world math and still get in enough formulas and algorithms?”
March 17, 2011 – “What topics would you like discussed at our weekly chats?”
