We're doing the same sort of thing, LMom. Today for math, we did area and perimeter of squares, rectangles, and irregular figures (like a rectangle with a square chunk taken out of it). Working with the sqares led us to some stuff with square roots and squaring numbers--so we covered all the 2x2/3x3/4x4 pairs in the multiplication table and found a neat pattern there, plus he found the square root of 121.
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It all allowed us to do some work with times tables without the painful memory work that failed so miserably last year.
It was pretty advanced geometry and pre-algebra stuff...plus boring times tables snuck in!
<singing>
Just a spoonful of ha-ard helps the ea-easy go down,
the ea-easy go do-own,
ea-easy go down!
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