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276:  Making Math Fun: Building a Thriving Homeschool Math Club

My guest, Haley Story, has built a thriving homeschool math club  and taught children that math can be fun. Haley was on episode 243 where she talked to us about Math Contests

These are the questions Haley answers in this episode:

1. Why did you start a math club
2. How did you get the word out
3. What do you do during math club? What resources do you use?
4 How many attend and how do you cope with the different ability levels.
5. How do you make it fun

Resources used in the Math Club

• The National Math Club by Mathcounts
• Art of Problem Solving – for advanced students and for contest prep
• Logic puzzles and warmups: Critical Thinking Company
• Challenge problems: practice contests from Noetic
• Problem of the Week from Mathcounts
• Beast Academy for younger students
• Math Is Fun
• Math board games, dice games, and card games

Board games that are NOT “math games” but that do a great job of teaching math 

• For Sale
• Incan Gold
• SET!
• Farkle
• Quixx
• Nertz/ Dutch Blitz
• 6 Nimmt  –

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