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Here is a list of home school resources that is by no means comprehensive.

  1. Classical Conversations supports homeschooling parents by cultivating the love of learning through a Christian worldview in fellowship with other families. Classical Conversations believes there are three keys to a great education: Classical, Christian, and Community.
  2. Switched-On Schoolhouse is a comprehensive, Christian homeschool curriculum that offers computer-based learning for grades 3-12. With animation, video clips, and other fascinating multimedia, Switched-On Schoolhouse is the perfect Christian homeschool curriculum for today's generation. With this flexible, best-selling curriculum, you can customize student learning to fit individual educational needs.
  3. Sonlight is a literature-based homeschool curriculum. In fact, Sonlight pioneered this style of homeschool back in 1990 when they started the company. When you use Sonlight, you and your children will read many of the best children’s books available.
  4. A Beka . What started with phonics-based readers and traditional arithmetic textbooks grew to comprise over 1,000 educational products from two-year-old preschool through twelfth grade for both Christian schools and homeschooling families. People with real teaching experience write all the A Beka Book textbooks, curriculum/lesson plans, and materials, helping students in homeschooling families around the world and in Christian schools of all sizes reach their learning potential.
  5. Teaching Textbooks is an award winning homeschool math curriculum. It has several short lessons and immediate real time feedback through homework and quizzes. It is secular, but very powerful.
  6. Easy Peasy All-In-One Homeschool is a complete, free online christian homeschool curriculum for your family. It has a complete study program from K-12. The high school is a separate program. The entire program was organized by a homeschool mom with 6 children. Did I mention it is free?
  7. The Well Trained Mind provides a series of books lectures and techniques for providing your child a top notch classical education.

More home school ideas for Christian parents can be found here. Additionally, some excellent short videos regarding traditional American values, economics and politics, made by professional educators and researchers, can be found at Prager University.

There is a Korean technique for rapid addition called Chisanbop . There is a video tutorial as well.

Fast Multiplication Tips

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/math/5-tips-for-faster-mental-multiplication
https://mind-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/hate-math-these-mental-tricks-will-have-you-multiplying-faster-than-einstein-ever-could-0146428/

Division

The proper way to do division. Who knew? They were teaching it wrong the whole time. This technique is sometimes called chunking or partial quotients. To make it fast you use tricks to build up your own multiplication table of quotients.
https://www.av8n.com/math/long-division.htm
http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/teaching-topics/computation/documents/div-partial-quotients-ex-1.pdf
One more trick. Normally in partial quotients you are told to never exceed the dividend. But what happens if you do exceed the dividend? The answer is that it still works but you have to take care of the signs of the remainders and quotients, which can become negative. One can often get to the answer much faster by always using the multiplier that gives you the closest number!


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