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Let your child’s passion for horses motivate their academic learning. Kids apply their math skills to the real-world of horses as they learn about conformation, how to calculate a horse’s heart rate, make purchases at the tack store, and more. Math is at the grade 4 & 5 level, the horse information is for all ages.
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Let your child’s passion for horses motivate their academic learning. Kids apply their math skills to the real-world of horses as they learn about conformation, how to calculate a horse’s heart rate, make purchases at the tack store, and more. Math is at the grade 4 & 5 level, the horse information is for all ages.
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Section 1 of the Horse Lover’s Math Level 2 Workbook is here! Kids learn about the coding systems used by the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service to manage herds of some of America’s wild horses.
Section 2 of the Horse Lover’s Math Level 2 Workbook is here! Tack stores are great places for kids to experience the importance of measurement and understanding money. Kids learn the real world skill of how to properly measure a horse for a blanket, girth/cinch and stirrups. Images from a tack store show how much these items cost. Kids are asked to make purchases testing their understanding of money and making change. With Horse Lover’s Math, doing math results in greater knowledge of the real world of horses. Kids won’t ask why do I have to know this? They’ll want to know!
Section 3 of the Horse Lover’s Math Level 2 Workbook is ready for download! Thirty-six pages of math and science for kids who love horses!
How many degrees of monocular vision do horses have and how does that compare to our vision? What is a Punnett square and how can you use it to predict a foal’s colour? Did you know there’s a way of using a horse’s Body Condition Score and their height to estimate a horse’s weight?
Here’s math and science as it’s used in the real world of horses. For horse crazy kids, the motivation to learn is built in!
Here’s more fun learning for horse crazy kids. Did you know there’s a mathematical way of determining the day of the week on which an individual is born? In this case, that individual is American Pharoah and by using his birth date and a six step process, kids discover what day of the week he was born on! Algebraic thinking is tested with a series of picture puzzles. Math’s four operations will be used to break codes and reveal information about horses and kids will receive an introduction to gait analysis, a branch of science that studies animal movements.
How much does it cost to own a horse ? How much water do horses need to drink each day? What’s involved in meeting the hay needs for a barnfull of horses? By the time kids finish this section of the Level 2 workbook, they’ll know a lot more about what it takes to own and care for horses.
In this section kids will learn how to tie a quick release knot, make their own saddle soap, make a ribbon browband and use a line of symmetry to complete a drawing of a horse’s face.
Detailed instructions for how to make a practice braiding board for both long and short manes are provided. Followed by how to braid short manes using elastics or yarn and how to braid long manes with either a running or diamond braid.