A couple years into it I thought I found a good curriculum. I just want my kid to do the work without kvetching or crying, be able to explain to me what he’s doing, and why.For five years we struggled to find a curriculum that would work for him. I think maybe parents want their kids to be math rock stars. Few of them are complementary I am afraid. The Old Schoolhouse did a review back in 2006. There are many reviews of the Math-U-See Algebra program. They are just two very kids with different skills. Now when Jordan gets a score lower than 95% I have problems with that. I really am absolutely delighted with that from him. So far, he’s batting about an 89% correct rate the first time out. He will use a white board to write the problem and solve it. I’ll ask him each question one at a time. Well knock me over with a sock and call me Sue. The reason he’s going so fast most of the time is that he is loving doing math! This kid has said on more than one occasion that he loves Algebra. He wants to believe he can run when he’s still learning to crawl. If he checks his work and he misses more than 3 then I’ll sit down with him to figure out where he went wrong. Some chapters take more than a week to get through. Logan really does need to work on slowing down though. Many times he has shown me his self-graded worksheet and said, “Mom! I can’t believe it myself, but look, I got these right!” After chapter 3 he hasn’t asked for help or assistance. I did help him in the beginning chapters. Logan is now in Chapter 7 and doing very well. This basic idea, consistently used throughout the program-even through algebra-is one of the best ways to demonstrate math concepts.” HOW IT IS WORKING FOR US I like this more mature boy, I really do.Ĭathy Duffy loves their manipulatives, “Manipulative Blocks, Fraction Overlays, and Algebra and Decimal Inserts are used at different levels to teach concepts, primarily using the “rectangle building” principle. It probably also helps that he is 17 years old now. A sense of responsibility has come over him after a summer of working full time. He wasn’t interested and saw no point in it. There were years when I thought I should just give up on teaching him math. He had worked very hard to get to this level. When the box came in the mail Logan was both excited and scared. After all, this is the kid who would rather sit and draw doodles on a simple math sheet than do the actual problems. I realized early on that Logan was not going to be the next child math prodigy. I wanted him to be able to do it on his own and explain to me why that method worked. A few things have been been important to me with teaching Logan math. Many folks will tell you that Math-U-See will serve your kid in college well. WILL MATH-U-SEE ALGEBRA 1 PREPARE A STUDENT FOR COLLEGE?
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