Hey, look. I am actually doing a homeschooling post!

Okay, so here is my situation - I hate teaching the kids math and they hate the way I teach them math.

This sitch (that’s Kim Possible slang for situation) is so weird because they are like mini math geniuses and I have my BA in math. You would think that we were a match made in Heaven, but alas, we are not.

I can kind of relate to their issues because I HATED math when I was in school. Pretty much up until the day I changed my major to math my junior year in college, I hated it.

Then I realized that I loved it. It totally puts the world into a logical context. Everything around us has a math based order to it. It is just amazing to get into the higher level math, but I am getting way off topic here.

I think the reason I always thought I hated math was the way it was taught. I also think that I am killing the boys’ interest in it with the way I teach it.

I bought Saxon because I thought they could teach themselves with it now that they are in 54 and 65, which to an extent they can, but not fully.

One day I was thinking about how much Bill Nye totally makes our science learning so much better because I can alternate between Bill Nye DVDs, which come with PDF quizzes that I can print out for them, and the lessons and experiments that I do with them. It’s a good balance. We all love it.

I wish that there was a Bill Nye for math.

Then I discovered D.I.V.E into Math. It is a CD ROM that has some guy’s voice teaching the Saxon math textbooks on a digital white board. They can go at their own pace, pause, rewind, etc, until they understand what they are learning. And each lesson is a separate file, so it’s easy to find their place.

This sounds like what we are looking for, but before I spend $50/grade-level (I have two), does anyone have any experience with this?