January 2012

"Training for the work of eternity"

Jan
04

This is my first blog entry for Ambleside, although I have been educating our sons using ASI support for three years. I must admit at the outset that I am a bit reticent to write a blog.  This is because I lack familiarity with the medium (I don't read blogs in general) and because I am more of a private person than most Internet users (point in case: I don't have a Facebook page and don't know how to access any). So the question is begged: why am I writing a blog now?

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Truth or Lies in Mathematics

Jan
29

One of the things I love about the mathematics curriculum at Ambleside is that for each new concept taught, the student is led to discover how and why it is true before they put it into practice. The textbook and workbook refer to this as "Telling the Truth".

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