Supporting a Global Learning Style

A few months ago, I wrote about exploring the "right-brained" style and sequence of learning, the details of which are written about extensively at "The Right Side of Normal" website.  In my previous post, I speculated that perhaps we are a family of "right-brained learners."  We are not.  (My son and I are "whole-brained" when it comes to math.  This plausibility of this claim is supported by a recent article citing studies that investigate brain activity of youth with a predilection for math and/or music.)  However, I do have one child who learns math in a way that constantly surprises me.  She does, indeed, follow the "right-brained" way of doing things. 

Puzzle Books

Having embraced the idea that my kids are pretty right-brained when it comes to learning math, I feel more comfortable introducing problems that would normally be several "steps" ahead of where they are.  Enter into our lives:  the Maths Quest series by David Glover. 



The Museum of Mysteries focuses on number manipulation.