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My dh and I are ready to pull our son out of the local public school. I won't go into the whole long story, but we are trying to make sure we have a plan in place. My son is in second grade now. He is an excellent reader, and I'm not worried about anything with homeschooling except math.
I'm just not sure what program to use. There is a possibility that he will be attending public school in Canada in 3rd grade, so I want to use something that would prepare him to go back into the school system. (My dh and I will be attending language school and may not be able to work out our schedule to homeschool.)
I have been to a couple of homeschooling conferences here in MT, but all of my books and notes are in storage in KY. Anyway, I was looking at Singapore math or Horizons math. Any thoughts would be welcome, even if it is not one of those two systems.
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| Posted by Anna on 02/18/2008 06:54 PM
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| I've never heard of the systems you mention, so I don't have an opinion on them, but I plan on using Saxon math. My school system growing up used these and I found them wonderful and easy to understand to the point that I never paid attention to the teachers. |
| posted by Indigo Ottyr on 02/18/2008 07:03 PM
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We use Saxon. Mostly because that's what the public schools in Arizona used. I was sort of anti-Saxon when we started because it's very repetitive and consequently to me it felt very SLOW. Well, it felt slow to my mathematically gifted son as well.
This, in my opinion, is a negative in a school setting because it really doesn't allow the kids to progress fast enough if they are capable. However, in the homeschool setting it's really a very good program. We skip some lessons here and there or do two lessons in one day if the topic is something easy.
Now that my 9 year old is into their 6th grade math book I have to say I welcome the repetition because it allows him to refine his skills and he doesn't have so many of the "oh I remember that... but shoot, I forget how to do it" moments that are classic with textbooks that teach one topic and move on totally. If he were still in the 4th grade math book (ie. in school) I think he'd be bored to tears.
I've heard good things about Singapore math and I've thought about using it over the summer because they have topic specific books as well as complete curriculum sets. My goal would be more of a "keep your brain thinking" for math rather than teaching them new concepts over the summer.
Ok that probably wasn't helpful. Sorry! |
| posted by Talisman on 02/18/2008 07:07 PM
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| We are using Saxon math because it was given to us, but I find myself using alternative methods and explanations with my kids. None of us here are very math-minded and so need additional help often. |
| posted by Kelly on 02/18/2008 07:26 PM
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| If you go to my website, http://KellyLee.info, you will see that there a lot of really good online resources for math as well. |
| posted by Kelly on 02/18/2008 07:28 PM
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Thanks for all of the advice. I had seen Saxon Math, but dismissed it because the reviews that I read complained of the repetition. But it may be closer to the school system than the other programs, and we could skip things if they get too repetitive.
I will do some more research and post here when I decide on a curriculum. |
| posted by Anna on 02/19/2008 11:24 AM
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| saxon is good. spectrum is a more compact version and mathusee has dvd's that go with them. check them all out. |
| posted by mom on 02/19/2008 12:05 PM
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| We haven't used Singapore math but we have used and are going to use again Horizon math. I like it too because if you need more work on it they have extra sheets you can print off and use. I think either would do well for you though. |
| posted by Jody on 02/19/2008 01:36 PM
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Thanks for all of the advice. There are so many options available. One of my friends also told me about the site www.homeschoolreviews.com, which has parent reviews of different systems.
I decided to go with Saxon math and see how it works for us. Since my son may be back in public school next year I wanted to stay fairly close to their standards.
We plan to be overseas and homeschooling eventually. I really like the Singapore math and when I start my daughters on math (they are both 4 now) I will probably use that. Maybe with my son as well.
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| posted by Anna on 02/25/2008 11:03 AM
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| Thank you for sharing that link! |
| posted by Kelly on 02/25/2008 03:28 PM
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