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Home school math curriculum. Help?
Question : Home school math curriculum. Help?
Home schooling Moms (and students), I need help. I am looking for a good math program. My sons are now 12 &14 (7th and 8th). For the last 2 years, we have been doing Math-U-See- the classic version. They don’t want to do it again. So my first problem is that MUS doesn’t seem to go in the same order as other curriculums (it actually makes more sense to me) so I don’t know how to place them when we do decide on another curriculum. When they were in ps they used Saxon, and we tried it our first year h’sing but they really didn’t like it. So we tried Abeka which was confusing because it is more advance than Saxon (and teaches in a different order). We then used ACE Paces for a couple of years before MUS. So I need some suggestions and I need to be able to give them placement tests to know where they are. We’re considering going back to Paces, but my concern is that I need more help guiding them as math is my worst subject. Thanks!
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Answer by HS Mom
Check out Teaching Textbooks. My son has been doing their Algebra I and it’s going wonderfully! The math program we’d been using for 4 years wasn’t working and this is such a great switch!
http://www.teachingtextbooks.com
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#4 written by FamilyMember 1 year ago
After trying a number of math curriculum unsuccessfully (including Saxon and Abeka), someone recommended the “Key to….” Series to my family. So, that’s what I used with my first two children.
The kids loved them because they were very easy to understand and they could go at their own pace. I loved them because all they had to do was follow along in an easy to understand workbook (I rarely got involved), and they are very cheap. We have since been told that they are remedial and not very effective.
I felt bad then, but both my kids liked math, and seemed to be good at it, so I didn’t worry.
Well, my 15 year old son just got done taking the college entrance tests to get into Dual Enrollment (he will attend community college during his junior and senior year to earn his AA by the time he “graduates” from high school). He scored almost perfect in math on all tests. I no longer fear our choice to use the “Key to….. series.”
They may not be considered “the best” math program, but if the kids understand them and end up liking math, I think they are better off. I went back to using them for my younger two!
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#5 written by Crazy4Christ! 1 year ago
I agree with HM Mom, Teaching Textbook are amazing. You take a test before you order the book, and that decides which curriculum is the right one. I was terrible in math, and about two years behind grade level, but after I got the Teaching Textbooks I started improving and I’m up to grade level now. I’d recommend it to anyone!
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We use Ray’s Arithmetic in our home. It covers from primary on up into High School and College level. It is a 150 yr old program. It is not set up like other programs as every problem is a Word Problem (you have to read it and then figure out how to do the problem and what function + – x etc. to use). My daughter is entering 3rd grade and doing division, and pesonally I stink at math but it’s not too hard to understand with Ray’s. But then that’s just my opinion.
I got the set from Amazon .com (under $ 50), Mott Media also has it, but it costs more. Mine are second hand.
So there is the $ 0.02 from me…it’s just one more option for you to check out….I think there are about 20 books in all to make the complete set.