Welcome to MathingOff, a list for unschooling math, deschooling math, deprogramming math anxiety, and just plain having fun with math!

This list is dedicated to exploring how math can be learned without "school", without canned curricula, without lesson plans, without artifically dividing it up into grade levels and testing and drilling it to death; and how math is naturally all around us and how children (and adults too!) are doing math all the time, whether they realize it or not!

This list is geared towards unschooling, but those who are "unschooling except for math" (but are looking to let go of that last hang-up) or homeschoolers of any sort who are interested in thinking about math education outside the box are welcome!

In addition to being a an open discussion list, this list also serves to distribute regular "math fun" postings two or more times a week. This includes Link of the Week (cool math stuff on the 'net), Resource Recommendation (NOT canned curriculum stuff, just fun books, toys, games, online educational resources, etc. to play with and enjoy), MathingOff Book Club (book reviews/recomendations) Mathtivity (math tricks, games, puzzles, etc.), Math Lingo (fun with math vocab), Math Around the World (ethnomathematics), and Random Math Trivia (um, did you know that 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321? LOL).

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