Welcome to Our Hands-On Math Help Homeschool Course

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Getting Started with Our Hands-On Math Help Homeschool Course

The Hands-On Math Help homeschool course is composed of lessons for parents about how to implement play-based math instruction using Cuisenaire rods. It includes a free, downloadable Cuisenaire rod app (currently only available for Windows) and weekly video tutorials that are designed to teach homeschool parents how to teach math in a fun, hands-on way using the rods.

*Please note, the videos can stand alone without the app and provide wonderful advice and teaching tips. The app is simply another tool that can be used with students.

Overview

45 lessons
Includes video-based lessons
Grades Parents

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and print it out so you can write notes on it. Click on the images for the videos and start with the first one and work through the series.

Course Outline for Our Hands-On Math Help Homeschool Course

Forty-five video-based Hands-On Math Help homeschool lessons teach parents how to use play-based activities with Cuisenaire rods in their math instruction.

Lesson One: About Cuisenaire Rods
Lesson Two: Cuisenaire Rods and the Traditional Approach to Teaching Math
Lesson Three: Incidental Learning
Lesson Four: Vocabulary – Algebra before Arithmetic!
Lesson Five: Important Words and Phrases
Lesson Six: Developing Memory Recall
Lesson Seven: Mental Imaging Games
Lesson Eight: Cardinal Number
Lesson Nine: Staircases
Lesson Ten: Mental Agility
Lesson Eleven: Cinderella’s Staircase
Lesson Twelve: Staircases and Multiplication
Lesson Thirteen: Math and Language Development
Lesson Fourteen: Introducing Signs +
Lesson Fifteen: Introduction Signs < >
Lesson Sixteen: Introducing Signs =
Lesson Seventeen: Introducing Signs Brackets (Parenthesis)
Lesson Eighteen: Introducing Signs Subtraction –
Lesson Nineteen: Introducing Signs Multiplication x
Lesson Twenty: Introducing Signs Division ÷
Lesson Twenty-One: Fractions as Operators
Lesson Twenty-Two: The Importance of Reviewing
Lesson Twenty-Three: The Importance of Questions
Lesson Twenty-Four: Families of Equivalent Addition
Lesson Twenty-Five: Families of Equivalent Factors and Products
Lesson Twenty-Six: Families of Equivalent Subtraction
Lesson Twenty-Seven: Families of Equivalent Fractions
Lesson Twenty-Eight: End of Stage One Review
Lesson Twenty-Nine: Moving On
Lesson Thirty: Beyond the Rods
Lesson Thirty-One: Studying Families
Lesson Thirty-Two: Families of Partitions (Length)
Lesson Thirty-Three: Tables of Partitions Without the Rods
Lesson Thirty-Four: There is no lesson 34
Lesson Thirty-Five: The Commutative Property of Addition
Lesson Thirty-Six: Studying Families
Lesson Thirty-Seven: The “Grain of Rice” Principle
Lesson Thirty-Eight: Free Expression
Lesson Thirty-Nine: Families of Equivalent Difference – A Closer Look
Lesson Forty: Families of Equivalent Difference – Extending the Challenge
Lesson Forty-One: Families of Factors and Divisors
Lesson Forty-Two: Factor Families – The Commutative Property of Multiplication
Lesson Forty-Three: Factor Families – Consolidation, Families of Factors and Divisors
Lesson Forty-Four: Factor Families
Lesson Forty-Five: Numbers have Names – Fractions as Operators
Lesson Forty-Six: Families of Equivalent Fractions/Quotients

More About Our Hands-On Math Help Homeschool Course

Hands-On Math Help homeschool lessons using Cuisenaire rods are designed to empower parents to help their children learn. Its purpose is to help homeschool parents of students in preschool-3rd grade make math enjoyable instead of frustrating. Through a free app and math tutorial videos, Philip Rowlands shows parents how to teach math in a manner that involves play, directed activities, open-ended tasks, and challenges. Hands-On Math Help homeschool lessons are designed to work with Cuisenaire rods, but instructions for creating a homemade set are included.

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