A beautiful story about a father, children, and math learning
I'm Kevin, a father who works overtime until 8 PM three days a week. On Wednesday night, I rushed home after canceling a client call and saw Miya rubbing her eyes at the desk - a sixth-grade circle area problem. She had written πr² as πr, and the erased marks looked like a mess.
“Dad, I can't remember the formula,” she said with tears in her voice. Meanwhile, Rocky threw the number cards on the table and shouted: “4, 8, 3, 6! I can't make 24 no matter how I calculate!”
At that moment, I suddenly remembered last week before my business trip, Miya held up my iPad and said “Dad, your GoodNotes notes are so beautiful” - why not turn the problem-solving process into a 'math game' they'd want to play repeatedly?
On Saturday morning, I imported Miya's wrong answers into GoodNotes, drew a big circle with a grid template, marked the radius r, and then used Apple Pencil to demonstrate: “The area is π times the radius squared, like putting a coat on the circle.”
Miya leaned over, picked up a rainbow highlighter and traced the formula in pink: “This way I won't forget!”
Then I opened a new page: “Come on, Rocky! Turn your 4, 8, 3, 6 into 24!” I wrote the four numbers on GoodNotes using a sticky note template and drew a thinking branch line - on the left I wrote (8-6)×3×4=24, on the right 8÷4×(6×3)=36 - “The right side is too big!” Rocky grabbed the Apple Pencil and added a new branch in the middle: (8÷4+6)×3=24! “Dad, I want to mark this genius route with a rocket sticker!”
Later, this became unstoppable: Miya designed starry covers for the wrong answer book, Rocky drew racing track stickers for the 24-point question bank. Every night after putting the children to sleep, I would organize these inspirations in the study - circle area formulas in grids, mathematical branches on sticky notes, rocket sticker takeoff trajectories... all made into GoodNotes templates.
Now when you open this website, you'll see:
If these templates have ever brightened a homework night - please take them. Because the best learning is always when your child smiles and says: “Dad, can we play math again tomorrow?”
Three people's math learning journey
A busy father who uses GoodNotes for work and creativity to light up children's learning
Sixth-grade student who makes math formulas shine with highlighters
Math prodigy who marks solution paths with rocket stickers
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