Are you about to start homeschooling your child? This can be an overwhelming but rewarding journey. Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do to avoid failure. Here are five tips for homeschooling success. Design a Homeschool Room Designate a room in your house to be your child’s homeschool room. If you don’t…
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Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
Improving Your Child’s Math Abilities
If your child is struggling with his math grades, rest assured that you are not alone. There are thousands of parents out there struggling to improve their child’s math abilities. As a parent, you want to support your child’s learning. If he or she is weak in mathematics, there are fun ways to encourage an…
New England’s Violin Making History is a Story of Innovation
John Chuang shares his violin collection and tells the history of violin and bass viol making in New England at the Museum of Fine Arts. It’s a story of innovation, technology transfer, and globalization. Bobby Giglio, Pappalardo Assistant Curator of Musical Instruments, collector of New England string instruments John Chuang, and internationally respected cellist Shirley…
Team SCUPP is a Finalist for Wege Prize
My daughter and her team are competing for $65,000 in prize money for the Wege Prize against five other teams who hail from around the world! Wege Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries…
Raksha Bandhan with India’s Boxing Champion Vaibhav Yadav
I learned about Raksha Bandhan from Rajani LaRocca’s Storytelling Math picture book, Bracelets for Bina’s Brothers. We used her picture book for the August 2021 Multicultural Children’s Book Club. I also learned about Raksha Bandhan from my friend, Vaibhav Yadav, who trained at my boxing gym. He’s India’s Unified Welterweight boxing champion, a.k.a….
Visiting The British Museum and the Return of Stolen Artifacts
The British Museum is a testament to England’s history as a colonizer. Many of the artifacts here are in dispute including 900 Benin bronze artifacts taken from Nigeria, the Parthenon Sculptures, a collection of marble architectural decoration from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and the Rosetta Stone of Egypt. Recently, there has been a movement for…
Coding For Kids: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
If you are going to teach kids programming, do it gently. You can scare kids away from coding for life if you approach it in the wrong way such as by forcing them to do it. If your child is showing resistance to coding, hold off for a few years until your child is older…