http://mathusee.com/blog Highlights, News and Fun Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:50:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Steve was recently interviewed by Paul Butler on Moody Radio's "Prime Time America" You can listen to Steve's segment "kids and math" on Paul Butler's blog. Despite years of federally funded education initiatives, a recent study by the NAEP reports that our children are still performing poorly in basic mathematics. Steve Demme is ... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/10/21/steve-interviewed-on-prime-time-america/ We recently received this email from proud parent and wanted to share it with you. Dear Steve, one of your students - Matthew Notaro - won the 2009 Google SketchUp Kid's Digital Design Contest and was honored by the Howe brothers - Popular Science's 2009 Inventors/Invention of the year. Your Math program ... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/10/13/math-u-see-student-wins-google-sketchup-contest/ A happy mom sent me this the other day and I just had to share it. This is Cole. He is my 11 year old (6th grade) son. For 4 years we have stressed, cried, and begged the school to help figure out what was going on with him. They kept ... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/10/01/i-love-u/ I was browsing a forum today and someone asked the question "Does home schooling affect a student's chances of getting into college?" here is one of the responses. Home schooling most definitely affects a student's chances of getting into a good university. In most cases, it improves their chances. Most home ... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/08/26/great-pre-calculus-testimony/ Guest post from Miriam Homer. Miriam has authored several of the Math-U-See books, has been a teacher and is a Pennsylvania homeschool evaluator. ************************************************ photo from lillarkie/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 Homeschool books and magazines often suggest that you choose curriculum to fit the teaching methods and philosophy you prefer. Did you ever ... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/08/21/how-does-math-u-see-fit/ Loading... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/08/13/calculus-upper-level-math-survey/ I got this email from a happy Math-U-See fan and thought I would share it with you, During Math today, my 9 year old made an Orange Two-lip, and Pink Three-lip we had to share! She calculated the number they represent too! Here is a picture of my 5 year old son ... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/08/10/math-flowers-two-lips-and-three-lips/ Steve was down in Jacksonville, FL for the homeschool convention a few weeks ago and here are some pictures. Forest at the Math-U-See booth before the convention. Some students meeting their math teacher/movie star Steve, always teaching http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/07/27/florida-homeschool-convention-with-steve/ This post is set to go up automatically on 04:05:06 on 07/08/09 A few hours later if you look at your clock at the exact right time you will see 12:34:56 on 7/8/09 Pretty neat huh?  :-)perfect opposites free http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/07/08/fun-with-numbers/ Brenda over at "The Family Revised" wrote a fun post entitled "So, Is It Handwriting U See or Math Without Tears?" Here is a portion of the post... So last week after Sweetheart finished her math review, what did she make? Why Math Man of course! Oh come on. That's funny. Read the ... http://mathusee.com/blog/2009/07/02/math-man/