Learning Materials

• Anna's workshop for parents:
  Teaching Math Without Tears or Burnout

Children learn math in different ways and at different speeds. This session explores how thinking, memory, and emotions affect learning, and how thoughtful choice of materials matters. Parents will gain practical, gentle strategies, using games and flexible resources, to support both struggling and advanced learners, from basic skills to high school math pathways.

• Talk slides

• Slide reading guide

• Alexey's workshop for parents:
  Raising Problem-Solvers: Essential Science & Tech Skills for the Next Generation

We want to keep every career door open for our kids, even before we know which path they’ll choose. This workshop helps homeschool parents teach science with more confidence, understand what AI really is (and isn’t), and help their students build computer literacy. Get clear, practical answers about curricula, timing, and using technology wisely.

• • Talk slides 

• Alexey and Anna's workshop for teens:
  Beat the Bank: A Hands-On Financial Strategy Game for Teens 

Students step into real-life money decisions—earning, saving, borrowing, and investing—through an engaging strategy game. See how interest and percentages work in the real world, test loans and savings with computers, and discover smart (and risky) choices. Competitive, practical, and eye-opening. Math level: Grades 7-12.

• • Mortgage and interest: Slides Excel

  • Car cost game: Slides Excel1 Excel2

  • Taxes and tax brackets: Slides Excel

  • Rent vs. Buy: Slides Excel

  • Beat the Bank -- running a business: Slides Excel