We've been studying some geometry lately. My math child is never content to do anything just like the books says, and when he saw his Saxon book had an activity sheet with geometric shapes he was running upstairs to get the tangram set from its dusty spot on the bookshelf. (We haven't used them since last year at this time!)
What followed was more than an hour of working through the cards in this set. He methodically went through each one, until he had completed every single card.
Math is not my strong suit.
I was a teacher and have a masters degree in education, but I was woefully unprepared to teach math to my own children.
I remember my dad saying "How are you going to teach them math?". I was offended by his statement. But you know what, I should have done better research in the beginning - I WAS unprepared to teach my children in this area!
Over the summer I have THOROUGHLY researched many math curricula available to the homeschool market. We have also had experience with two different math programs in our homeschool.