Solid Mathematics Can Happen in 5 Minutes, or 5 Hours, or 5 Days, or ... 5 Years
Learning is not as complex as we often make it seem. As you can see in this two-minute video, my 8-year-old is sometimes humming and even a little annoyed. But we capitalized on the sub-5-minute available time. Learning happened. Time or the lack of time should not hinder learning. We can only learn in the time we have.
In this episode, after parenting my 8-year-old through some of her regular teacher-assigned grade-4 mathematics, we transitioned to our back-in-the-days-old-homeschool math. It was under five minutes but meaningful.