Articles dated March 2018

No Habla Español
by Tifany
Friday, 23 March, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Friday, 23 March, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
As I sat there repeating (less elegantly than the teacher) short phrases like “How are you?” and “My name is Tifany” in Spanish, a part of me felt truly inadequate. My intention in taking a Spanish class was to see how nine years of Classical Conversations Latin would...

The Curious Case of the Pythagorean Theorem and the Distance Formula
by Jonathan
Thursday, 15 March, 2018
categories: Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 15 March, 2018
categories: Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Students often view mathematics as merely a collection of formulas they have to memorize, rather than ideas they need to understand. Because of this, students learning mathematics often miss some of the important connections between ideas within mathematics.
Missing...

16 finalists selected for National Memory Master
After weeks of judging and intense debate, the National Memory Master judges have selected 16 finalists from among nearly 100 quality entry videos.
“There were humorous entries, informative entries, and entries that focused heavily on apologetics,” said NMM...

Harmony
How like a chord community can be,
A fellowship of voices as a whole,
Resounding in incarnate harmony
Made lovely when the voices share one goal.
Oh, friends and countrymen, lend me your ears;
No reader of this rhyme needs stand...

Thrivent becomes major sponsor of N2K and the Capstone Cruise
Southern Pines, North Carolina—A credit union that serves Christians has become a major sponsor of Classical Conversations’ National Number Knockout Competition and the Capstone Cruise.
Thrivent Federal Credit Union (TFCU) has agreed to sponsor National Number...