Does your student understand math concepts, but can’t master multiplication facts? Do you have a child with a math phobia or even a learning disability in math? This workshop includes a variety of teaching strategies and resources that will equip you to teach math no matter what curriculum program you’re using!

Games provide motivation and context for reinforcing math skills and concepts. Play math games - both home-made and commercial - to see how "active math" can be an intentional and fun part of your homeschool.

Cliff will demonstrate how his speed math methods always prove faster than the old-fashioned algorithmic methods with which we all grew up. He’ll also show how these methods are often faster than with the use of a calculator! The directives of 3 of the Common Core Standards will play an important part in the discovery of these techniques. Many of these methods have long been in use in European and Asian schools and their textbooks, which explain why we currently find ourselves near the bottom ranking country in the world in mental math and calculation abilities. Once learned, however, these methods will help bring our calculating methods into the 21st Century and, at the same time, will leave your calculator-dependent friends in the dust!

Kevin Swanson obtained his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering, but he would be the first to tell you he didn’t like science very much (as taught in secular college). Here, he expresses his passion to making mathematics and science meaningful to our children by bringing it back into a God-centered view. This presentation will radically change your view of these subjects, and help you to understand the right worldview foundations for these subjects.

Each student is unique. Since parent educators are tutors, they are able to adapt to the needs of their individual child. Find out what they know, and begin there. Giving your children a firm foundation in math will equip them to succeed at every level of math. They are not behind, they are where they are.

Math is so much more than memorizing rules and facts. With a unique and humorous approach, Steve demonstrates how to use hands-on manipulatives to illustrate important math concepts such as place value, double digit multiplication, fractions, algebra, exponents, squares, square roots, and factoring trinomials.

Today, former 40-year math teacher Cliff Petrak of Chicago is going to help us master a multitude of little-known, super-shortcut computational techniques and strategies involving addition, subtraction, fractions, squaring and multiplication that will help bring our calculating methods into the 21st Century and, at the same time, will leave our calculator-dependent friends in the dust! Many of these methods have long been in use in many European and Asian schools while they are rarely found in any American text. (This is audio only)