Doodles Do Algebra^TM is designed specifically to help you answer the “But, why?” question for your kids. My children ran circles around me every day that we homeschooled, filled with questions and ideas, and I want to share my math teaching techniques and tools with you.

The day I began writing Doodles Do Algebra^TM was mostly a day of mommy-learning. I was trying to teach my twins (we call them the doodles) how to expand certain algebraic fractions into an infinite series. As I began talking, it was clear that my kids only understood the mechanics, or the “how it works” part, but not the “why”. That was not going to cut it, as far as my doodles were concerned. All the other algebra books out there only explain what to do to get the right answer. None of them explain why you need to learn all the parts of algebra.

My daughter, the more precocious of the two, told me I could explain the “how” until I was blue in the face but that neither she nor her brother would ever remember how to do this type of math unless I could explain the “why.” The the light bulb went off. I needed to show them “why” the math was used before they could understand how to use it. So, that afternoon, I sat down to create Doodles Do Algebra^TM for my children.

Now that they have successfully learned algebra with the 7-volume Doodles Do Algebra^TM curriculum, I am sharing it with other homeschooling and afterschooling families like yours.