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A Nighttime Carschooling Adventure

Here’s a quick game to help kids understand the math concepts of “greater than,” “less than,” and “equal to.”  Everyone finds one license plate on a passing car and copies it down on a piece of paper.  Remove the letters in the license plate, leaving just the numbers.  Each person takes a turn reading his [...]

Driving in Circles

Each car has at least 5 circles.  Can you find them?

Answer: 1 steering wheel, 4 tires, 1 spare tire, knobs, speedometers, etc.  When looking for circles, tell your carschoolers about parts of circles and see if they can find the ones listed here:

Arc: A curved line that is part of the circumference of a circle
Circumference: [...]

100 Bottles of Juice on the Wall

A teacher in Santa Cruz, California, came up with this way to help her own kids – ages 5 & 8 – do mental math with addition and subtraction. She revamped the old song “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” in this way:

5 bottles of juice on the wall

5 bottles of juice

You go to [...]