I am so excited to be sharing a wonderful resource that God led me to dealing with the subject of math.

I had been seeking the Lord and asking Him how can we enliven our math lessons. I had been attempting to teach it from it’s biblical principles and though we had a lovely week studying math foundations I found that when we got down to the nitty gritty of everyday drills and word problems and such there would be a dryness and dullness; I felt something was missing. I began feeling like maybe I should incorporate a biblical principle every week to liven it up, to bring the flow and joy and richness of the Holy Spirit into our lessons.

In my seeking God and thinking about this the book MATHEMATICS! IS GOD SILENT kept coming up in my mind. I had seen the title and read about it somewhere but could not remember where..it was not even recently, so I did a search on it and found many links to the book and I came across a link that I thought was for MATHEMATICS! IS GOD SILENT but it was actually BEYOND NUMBERS: A Practical Guide to Teaching Math Biblically by Katherine Loop. I followed the links to the author’s website and got blessed beyond measure.

The Loop’s family ministry website is www.christianperspective.net and they sell the Katherine’s book in e-book form. I bought it and read it over this past weekend.

BEYOND NUMBERS is a wonderful resource that shows how to view math biblically and how to teach it biblically and practically and to incorporate lessons on how math was used(and developed) historically. Teaching with all of these components (in whatever proportion the Lord leads) will present a wholistic, BIBLICAL view of math. It will also take us beyond the numbers that we first start studying about to where our sole purpose should be and that is - to see God in it all; and once we see Him and understand that He holds all of these physical laws together and that math is just a description or recording of what He has already created and that our study of His physical laws show us His nature and character, then our study of math will result in God being glorified and our faith and love and trust deepening in Him. Our focus won’t be on THE NUMBERS but will be on GOD, who is the One who keeps His physical laws consistent enough to make THE NUMBERS work anyway. How glorious is that!!! How wonderful this piece of revelation is to my spirit…it is soooo sweet to me….sooo sweet!!!

This ARTICLE from her website blessed me tremendously and sent me flyin’ high..it is just what I was looking for and answered my questions just perfectly…that’s just like God isn’t it???

So I’m just rejoicing that He has answered my questions and enabled me to see Him just a little clearer even in math.

I also bought MATHEMATICS! IS GOD SILENT. I will let u know how it is once I get it and read it.

God is soooooooo good!! Seeing God in all of life and learning is such a joy!!!!! Now I can say ahhhhh…..the joy of math!!!!(finally!!)

1. Thank you so much for sharing this resource! I will look at it more in depth later this evening. We definitely can add some biblical principles to our RightStart math. I purchased Mathematics, Is God Silent this summer but haven’t read it yet.

   Comment by Renae — August 20, 2007 @ 4:17 pm

2. This sounds like just what I have been looking for! Thanks so much for sharing! ( :

   Comment by Mandi — August 21, 2007 @ 9:43 am

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