Episode Ep 276 May 22, 2024 25 min 38s

Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club

From Homeschooling with Technology Meryl van der Merwe

276: Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club

My guest, Haley Story, has built a thriving homeschool math club and taught children that math can be fun. Haley was on episode 243 where she talked to us about Math Contests

These are the questions Haley answers in this episode:

1. Why did you start a math club
2. How did you get the word out
3. What do you do during math club? What resources do you use?
4 How many attend and how do you cope with the different ability levels.
5. How do you make it fun

Resources used in the Math Club

The National Math Club by Mathcounts
Art of Problem Solving – for advanced students and for contest prep
Logic puzzles and warmups: Critical Thinking Company
Challenge problems: practice contests from Noetic
Problem of the Week from Mathcounts
Beast Academy for younger students
Math Is Fun
Math board games, dice games, and card games

Board games that are NOT “math games” but that do a great job of teaching math

For Sale
Incan Gold
SET!
Farkle
Quixx
Nertz/ Dutch Blitz
6 Nimmt – original German Version, US version
Skyjo

Be sure to listen to the episode to hear exactly how Haley started the math club and runs it!

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