I'd like to introduce you to Katherine Loop, a lovely young woman who is a homeschool graduate and now ministers to the homeschool community in Virginia. While I never had the privilege to meet her face to face while I was living there, several of my friends do know her personally and attest to her godly character and sweet spirit. I have been blessed to receive her monthly newsletter, and was excited to learn that she has now begun a blog.
One of Miss Loop's passions is teaching Math from a Christian perspective. About the same time that she became known to me, I was similarly beginning to seek out ways to teach Math to my own kids from a Biblical standpoint. As I prayed for God's guidance in doing so, He was so gracious to give me ideas. For example, when introducing the ruler as a standard for measurement, you are teaching the absolute truth of 12 inches equaling a foot and rejecting the relativism of everyone measuring according to the size of their own foot. Likewise, the Bible is our absolute standard by which all are measured and we as Christians reject the world's relativism that everyone can live as they choose and pray to whichever God they desire, or none at all. Just as chaos results when people measure something by their own foot, chaos results when individuals reject the absolutes of God's Word and live by their own standards. This is just one example that God gave me, personally, to use Mathematics to enforce and teach Biblical ideas. Katherine has many more resources for teaching Math biblically on her website www.christianperspective.net and has now launched a Math blog.
I encourage you to go check it out (http://www.christianperspective.net/blog/) and please, give her a warm welcome to the blogosphere with an encouraging comment! I pray that God will use this forum to enable her to encourage so many more families; beyond Virginia! :) |
