Dave Pommier
I am a homeschooling dad with a wife and two boys. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, so I feel compelled to write it all down. In my spare time, I work as a manager for the local health district, drink too much coffee, and am an overenthusiastic martial artist.
Top Posts & Pages
Tags
- age of discovery
- algebra
- anatomy and physiology
- ancient greece
- ANZAC
- archery
- art
- assessment
- bali
- bees
- bird
- board game
- bush turkey
- candles
- chess
- chook
- climate change
- collaboration
- confidence
- cooking
- cost
- cuisenaire rods
- curriculum
- day in the life
- dragon box
- drawing
- easy complexity
- evolution
- experimentation
- felt
- fire
- flexibility
- flying fox
- gender
- geometry
- herb
- history
- imagination
- learning in context
- Lego
- life experience
- local history
- maps
- math
- music
- mythology
- nature
- negotiation
- ocean
- painting
- parenting
- Pemuteran
- philosophy
- piano
- planning
- play
- radial symmetry
- reflection
- registration
- rhythm
- safety
- science
- self determination
- shells
- ship
- socialisation
- stealing
- Stradbroke Island
- test
- The Lord of the Rings
- travel
- ubud
- why homeschool
- world war 1
- writing
Categories
Tag Archives: easy complexity
Euclid’s Elements
My teaching style tends to rely quite a bit on the application of concepts first, and then filling in the details as we go. It seems to fit more naturally to the pattern of how people learn. I also try … Continue reading
Posted in Math
Tagged bloke, dragon box, easy complexity, flexibility, geometry, homeschool, math, play
10 Comments
The state of things
Here at Bloke School, we spend a large proportion of our time studying science in one form or another. It was kind of ironic that our initial approach to this field of reasoning and deduction was fairly haphazard. We were … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Teaching and learning
Tagged bloke, easy complexity, experimentation, homeschool, imagination, learning in context, science
Leave a comment
Teaching themselves algebra
In purely practical terms, I have never actually had to know the adjusted speed of a 40 tonne submarine previously travelling at 50 km/hr through a friction-less ocean, having just discharged a 100 kg torpedo with a velocity of 80 … Continue reading
Posted in Math, Teaching and learning
Tagged algebra, bloke, dragon box, easy complexity, flexibility, homeschool, math, play
7 Comments
Easy complexity
Although our maths lessons contain basics like counting, adding, subtracting, and grouping things, I find it much more interesting to explore mathematical concepts. I have seen quite a lot of people discussing moebius noodles, and have just recently managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Experimentation, Math
Tagged bloke, easy complexity, experimentation, homeschool, math, play, radial symmetry
2 Comments