Good morning! Now you guys know three main things I'm going to repeat
them all throughout because that's what we do. First of all Math Lessons for a Living
Education. What is this video about? That's what it's about. A Charlotte Mason
inspired math curriculum that is blowing away the math market because there's
just nothing else like it and we're going to talk about it today and what
sets it apart. Secondly, if you are interested, you can get it there's a link
(below) where you can take a placement test scroll down will you see a big button
that says "placement test" that's where you're going to go and find out which
level you want to place your child at. It's not graded it's level based so that
you can find where your child is best going to fit and help them master the
concepts or fill in any gaps that they may have. Also if you do end up
purchasing there is a coupon code (below) that you can use for your purchase to
help save you a little bit because, you know, every bit counts. All right I'm
going to open up my video here so that I can see your guys' questions! Okay so I
was really really hoping to get Angela on with me so you could see her face in
the corner... But alas once again though we tried, it
is not working we have to test it out I think some time on our personal pages
because that needs to happen. But she's going to be replying to your guys' comments in
the comments below as well so I'm going to give my own personal take. There's going to be
times I'm gonna actually defer to her and I'm gonna ask her the questions
I have a list of questions you guys have given me on my Instagram as well as over
on Facebook and wherever else I posted it in the event so we're going to be
using these questions and then what I'll do is once I've given an overview and
gone through these questions I'll go through the live questions in today's video.
So grab yourself some coffee... it's gonna be fast paced, it's gonna be intense and
it's gonna be fun
all right I know 'give us Canadians some love' I'm giving you love from Canada it's
a winter wonderland outside but you have to buy the curriculum
get the PDF if you guys are in Canada, get the PDF version so that you can
download it use it for multiple kids and print it off at Staples, it's the
best and cheapest option for you it's cheaper than even getting an Amazon here
in Canada so just sayin', free tip the day for Canadians. All right so here we go
I'm gonna start off with the overview so here's how the overview is gonna work
Charlotte Mason inspired math if you are not familiar with Charlotte Mason it is
a philosophy of education based off an actual person who came up with this
philosophy of education and it basically takes in the idea of educating the whole
child not just their mind because we focus in education so much on the
brain let's focus on the brain let's "educate our children" the reality is
your child has to choose if they want to be educated. Anyone else have a child that
doesn't seem to be choosing to be educated? So we want to educate the whole
child we want to teach to and inspire the whole child because if we're not
inspiring our children all around then they're not going to be retaining what
we're teaching them because it's just random facts that mean nothing to them.
So the idea behind it is you are often you'll see Charlotte Mason homeschoolers
getting out there, involved in nature, stories, reading together, read aloud's
copywork, narration, it's this whole experience of education rather than a
workbook that you work through. So that is the idea behind a Charlotte Mason
curriculum and we're gonna see those philosophies embedded all throughout
this program. So as you can see I have all six levels in front of me this is a
Christian-based math curriculum. Okay? That's really important for those of you
that absolutely don't want any Christian content; this is full of it! So this is a
Christian-based math curriculum, first off. Secondly it only goes up to grade
six. I'm going to say this right now, or level six, I
guess you could use it for an older child if they're struggling you might want to
go back but it only goes to level six. It is not going any higher it's an
elementary based math program that's what it is. So we'll talk about what you
can use for the later grades for those of you that have been asking cuz that
question has been popping up so let's just, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna open
it up and I'm going to kind of read through a bit of the scope and sequence
of each one and then show you a picture in the beginning and a picture of the
end and what I want you to understand is that, if you, afterwards I'll post the
link to the actual event page where I was talking about this and in that event
I'm going to create a separate post for each level and you'll see a higher
resolution photo of these levels so if you want to see the scope and sequence
in depth then you want to go to that event and you can scroll through and see.
So I will make sure to post that link after but for now let's just take a pook
pook, pook, that's not a word! Wow. Homeschool win right here!
Peek! We're going to take a quick peek! Okay level one so scope and sequence. Are you ready?
I'm not gonna read them all, cuz, you know, we have lives. You're starting off with learning your numbers
okay they're gonna be identifying number zero to nine they're learning how to
write them they're learning how to form them. This would be you know really good for
Kindergarten/Grade 1 depending on where your child is at. There's a
placement test, like I said, online. You go to patterns you go to circles and shapes
you work with place value level one is really focused on place value and if one
of my kids pop in which does probably be long enough that they will I'll ask them
to bring me my iPad because I forgot about that I can show you a really neat app
that you can use so you're gonna build your own place value village so your kids are
kinesthetically, hands-on, getting to see and build using a place value
village so they can see it in action not just on paper. They learned the symbols
plus, minus, equals, they learn how to add they learn how to subtract and they
it goes into time, skip counting, tally marks, solving for an unknown. They're
learning about skip counting by twos, fives review of numbers and learn all
the way up to 100 so it really is a comprehensive program that's gonna take
them all away from number identification all the way to telling time knowing their
shapes knowing their numbers understanding place value as well as
addition and subtraction. And you guys place value is something that I think
often can be a gap so what happens in math is that we push our kids along and
they don't fully understand place value so now when we get into decimals and
fractions and all different sorts of things they're not grasping this concept
and it's affecting them in all their other math concepts so let's take a look
at the first page exercise one day one. They are going to be learning their
numbers and how to form them and we have to take our time with that. It's done through
copywork as you can see because a lot of kids do things backwards or wrong.
And every week starts off in all the programs with a story. So in the beginning
levels you're gonna read it with the kids and the later levels they read it
independently which brings in connections from the real world around
them so kids are actually building connections with these concepts rather
than just having to memorize them if they're
understanding how these concepts look in real life. Okay so that's... so then you
would have five days of worksheets/ lessons to work through to reinforce the
concepts that you learned in the story. So that's kind of the basis of it. I'm gonna
skip forward to the end so you can see fully and this is day 148 but it does
show you they're already learning true fractions and time so for those of you
that are thinking this is like Kindergarten level this is definitely
more of a grade 1 level. It is recommended for kids ages 5 to 7
and that'skind of the basis of what they're going to be learning. Okay
So that's level one, let's go quickly to level two and then I'm going to get into
the questions. Level two: what they're learning. And the reason I'm going through
this you guys, is because a lot of the questions is "is this comprehensive enough" so I
want to make sure you understand what's included in each level. Level two we're
reviewing: the first section of the book is going through review. We're going
into money, skip counting, addition, double digits plus double digits,
measurement, perimeter, telling time to the minute, place value
to the thousands, addition, carrying to the tens place, subtraction, borrowing
regrouping, thermometers, bar graphs, line graphs
pounds, ounces, measurement, subtracting money, adding money, word problems yeah
okay so that gives you a basic overview let's look on the beginning of the
program. I'm gonna take you here, okay so this is level two, recommended for around
grade two and for around ages six to eight. And then I'm going to skip forward
to the end of the book to give you an idea
of kind of where they will be. That's graphs, word problems...
sorry I'm just trying to find a good indicator page here. Measurements, um okay
here where they're learning about subtracting money! Okay so let's move
forward to level three. Don't worry you guys, I'm going to catch up on comments as well
after. Don't forget! If you're new and just joining on, Math Lessons for a Living Education,
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will be choosing one person from this video to win one level of this math
program (giveaway ended). All right, level three starts off they're
reviewing and then it goes into column addition, larger numbers, larger number
subtracting, rounding larger amounts of money, division, multiplying,
area, fractions, um place value through the millions, estimation, measurement
concepts, introducing solving for unknowns, which as you guys know, when we say
solving for unknowns we're building the base for algebra, Roman numerals,
estimation, all that kind of stuff and then review. Okay so level three, the
beginning, is this one. And somebody said it only took their child five minutes to do
level three math which we'll go through when I go through the questions
but it definitely takes my kids longer than five minutes. So we'll talk about time.
It's not as long, it's not like it's taking them an hour for math
which I love. They can generally, if they put their mind to it, they can get it
done in you know 20 minutes-ish. Fill in the blanks, equals... I'm just trying
to find
Here we go... okay so level three towards the end
Level four what they're going to cover is review, new fraction
concepts, adding and subtracting like denominators, so now they're
adding and subtracting fractions, multiplication, carrying using elevens and
twelves, geometric concepts, steps of division with no remainders, larger
multiplication, division, checking division, division with a remainder,
so we're talking long division here guys, metric units of measure, mixed numbers,
adding and subtracting with like denominators, equivalent fractions,
decimals and fractions, relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents,
geometry. Okay so that's kind of an overview of what's included. Now I'll
show you, my son started off here, the level four. Okay obviously I've marked
this, so it starts off with review. So if this looks easy that's just because it's
reviewing, right? We're reviewing all the concepts that you would already need
to know. And then towards the end... I'll show you this one. So you're dealing with
fractions, addition ,subtraction, all that kind of stuff. Okay level four. Now we're
into the last two levels here. Level five scope and sequence. Level five starts off
with review and now we're working with two digit divisors, factoring, common
factors, greatest common factor, proper and improper fractions, changing
improper fractions, sums containing improper fractions, least common multiples, finding
a common denominator, adding fractions and mixed numbers with
uncommon denominators, subtracting fractions with common denominators,
adding mixed numbers... just basically: fractions fractions fractions with uncommon
denominators, adding, subtracting, really mastering. Multiplying fractions,
divisibility rules and dividing fractions, dividing decimals, making
change, and then review. So I'm not listing every single thing guys, just
an overview. So in the beginning, this is kind of where they're reviewing what
they're expected to kind of know at the beginning of level 5 which is about a
grade 5 level or for ages 9 to 11 and by the end... this is around what they're
doing. Remember this is still story based so they're reading their story but
they're doing it all independently and it's just helping them to build
connections with the lessons that they're doing. Now level 6 is the only
one that comes with a teacher's guide and the reason for that is because
lesson instruction is built right into the books so for level 1 and level 2
lesson instruction is built in. It's written to the teacher so that you can
read it and do it with your child because children who are in grade 1 and
2 are not reading independently. You have to do it with them anyways so it's
written to you. Level 3 starts off being written to the child so now they can
start to do it more independently and there's an answer key at the back of the
book. The pages are all perforated so you can rip that out if you want to. Now
level 4, 5, 6 they're all written for the child but level 6 is the only one
that has a separate teacher's guide. So in the teacher's guide it has your
student quizzes. It's also the only one that has quizzes. It has your weekly lesson
schedule and your answer key and solution manual so here's an example:
I'll just give you an example of a quiz in the beginning and a quiz at the end because that
will give you a good indication okay what it is at the beginning. Sorry. And let's
go through to a quiz towards the end. The word problems aren't going to show you a
huge amount, just words, but they're covering a lot in those word problems.
okay so this is level six. Now level six scope and sequence
and I'm going to then go right into questions and answers. They're working
with whole numbers, averaging, factors, fractions, review of
fraction concepts, adding and subtracting, multiplying, dividing fractions, it's
advanced fractional concepts now that we're going into. Decimal basics, percents
savvy shopping how it brings it into the real world... and I did one of those! If you
want to watch a funny video, go back and watch where I do one from level six!
Because, whooo! It really brings it into the real world ;)
geometry, maps, graphs, charts, units of measure so let's look at in here. Where
we're at beginning to end and then we're going to go into the question and answer
time. I feel like this is really important because the the main question that I've
seen repeated over and over is is this comprehensive enough and
I really want you guys to understand how these all work and then I'm gonna get
into how comprehensive they are. Okay here we go, question time. And like I said
I'm going to be coming back and looking at the comments as well. Here we go, on
Instagram I'm gonna name your Instagram name because that's all I have and if
you're watching you'll know your username. Becisdomesticbliss asked:
"How much work on money is there" most of what we're talking about in these levels is
adding and subtracting and multiplying with money. Where it gets into the
actual look of money is I believe in level two.
Possibly a little bit in level one as well um so there is some just like there
has to be with any math. For me I'm in Canada so I think you were you were
saying you were in Australia, if I remember correctly, and so that's always
an issue with you with US curriculums and I'm the same Canadian curriculums I mean I
want it to be Canadian money but the reality is is not too much difference
for me in the size of it and I just I just bring in our money and I lay it on
the table and they they go for it that way um so hopefully that helps but most
of it what you're dealing with once they understand the visual concept is adding
and subtracting and all that different stuff with money which should be able to
be applied to no matter what you're doing um okay so 5grubbies, which I
love your Instagram handle, said, "Is your daughter in kindergarten and using the
grade one book?" Yes she is. The reason for that is because she's a keener and she's
absolutely beyond ready. Now I showed you a picture from that was her book for the
level one and you'll see that her threes are backwards her sevens were backwards
often her fives are backwards so she's ready for the content the written work
is is challenging for her she constantly gets it backwards but here's a little
news flash so does my eight year old. My eight-year-old constantly gets his 7s
backwards his 5s and his 3s so I don't think that's necessarily a new
thing and that wouldn't be a reason that I wouldn't use the program. As far as
content and her ability, her pencil grasp all those different things she's
more than ready. She loves the stories she grasps the concepts very well and so
we dove into it. My four world will be five in the spring she would be eligible
technically if I was using that same philosophy to try it she's nowhere near
ready. So again that has to be based on your child. My five-year-old is more
even though she's kindergarten more in a grade one level in everything her
reading everything so I wouldn't take that as like an indicator that this is a
Kindergarten program. It's grade one content but it is working for
my kindergartner because she's advanced. okay pinkLola37 said, "There is only tests for
level 6 and I wish that there were tests for level 3 to 5." Now I'm gonna get
my own take on this but I would love to hear Angela if you could pop on on that
question and respond with what would you recommend for parents that want more of
that review they want to feel like they're testing their children I'm going
to talk about narration and how that plays in but I would really love to hear
your response to that if you have any recommendations for testing or for a
parent to feel that confidence that their child is fully grasping. So we're
gonna wait because I know she's gonna be tip tapping away and we're gonna wait
for her response on that and then I'm gonna I'm come back to it. Next.
Okay Fidelermommy which hopefully I'm saying it right guys said, "Would one
level last a whole school year?" Yes one level will last an entire school year.
let me open it up to level three okay so there's 36 lessons so every
lesson sorry I'm so distracted I'm waiting
this here um there's 36 lessons so you would do one less than a week so you're
gonna read the story at the beginning of the week new concept and then you're
gonna go through into your into your daily worksheets so hopefully that
answers that. It is enough for an entire year. It's a full-year curriculum, in this!
You don't have to buy five different things you just need to buy this, right?
Win-win! Okay here's what I'm going to do, level six. I'm gonna help tackle this question here and for all.
Level 6 and level 6, here is what I did. The questions I'll go
through 'I've heard they're below grade level' 'high level math are they prepared?'
'Does it adequately prepare children for higher math upper level math?' 'What do you do
past level six?' 'How are they prepared?' 'I've heard this not thorough
enough...' Okay. Over and over and over and over again so I'm going to answer all of your
questions at once, here we go. Here's what I did. I went on
First of all what I would personally recommend what I probably will use
unless I see something else, I've got a few years. Maybe some new math is gonna pop up, but
from what I see I really like the idea of Teaching Textbooks but I felt like my
children weren't getting a mastery approach and
they were missing so many things so this has been filling in so many gaps and is
building a mastery approach which I am way preferring and that's why we are
using this curriculum but for higher levels from what I can see that seems to
be probably what we will go to either that possibly Math U See, it might be
hard to jump back into I'm not sure for those of you that are asking what I'm
going to use for higher level, not a hundred percent certain, but that's
probably the direction that I'm going right now is Teaching Textbooks. So what I
did is I went onto their site and I looked at their placement test for for
grade 7. Grade 7 would be what you would do after level 6 and I printed it and I
compared the questions of what they should know before going into level 7
with what they are covering in level 6... par! Completely
point for point! In fact I also went and printed the pre-algebra grade eight
Teaching Textbooks quiz and honestly everything that I am seeing here is here (in MLFLE)
So is your child prepared for upper level math? Go and do the same thing I did
go and print off the the tests okay here is your the page from the placement test
for the grade 8 teaching textbooks okay then if I go to math here if you can clearly
see the dividing with fractions with mixed fractions multiplying I mean
they're doing adding decimals we're multiplying decimals here and then the
division that they're giving I don't even see division here... Oh! 44.45 divided
by 3.5 I mean there is much larger division covered in this one and solve
and check for the unknown. So take a look at this solve and check for the unknown
see right here if you can, I'll post it afterward if I can find it again. Alright, and
then here you can see the same things are covered in the level six and we're
not even at the end of this program so that question... I mean and Angela can
talk more to it about the approach and the design and all those different
things but I can tell you from a homeschool mom that's just saying, "Is my
child prepared?" it's pretty easy to tell. I went and printed off the test I looked
at the content everything that my child needs to know up to grade eight is
covered in the grade six and if you go and you look at the placement test
for level 1, grade 2, grade 3 at Teaching Textbooks or other comparable
math curriculum companies you will find it as comparable with the scope and
sequence that I showed you or told you about in these math programs. So again I
have to clarify that because I feel like this question is the main
question I'm being asked, "Is my child prepared? is this enough?" Yes it is enough!
It is enough, it is enough. And by doing less your child's going to retain more
than when you give them so much information and they're hammered down that
they can't retain what they're learning it means nothing to them and they hate
math! As opposed to let's give you a small amount let's teach it in such a way that
you master it and therefore you only have to do this smaller portion and yet
all the same content is being covered and you're well prepared for any other
math curriculum they're going into. Okay, mic drop. So I'm passionate about
that idea because that idea of people feeling like they have to do so much is
a huge problem in the homeschool community and you know where it comes
from is our own experience with school and we just can't get over it.
The public school expectations the idea that our kids need to be bogged down
with all these language arts and writing and reading and you know all those
things yes of course are important but there's a way to do it without that much
it does not have to be that much okay preach! I know, see my hands are going I'm
preaching. Okay simmer down. NikkiWMullins asked if the curriculum comes
with DVDs, no it does not but it doesn't need it! you're gonna read the story which
is engaging and then they're gonna do the lesson and older kids are gonna do
it all independently. Okay I'm gonna skip through all the upper level math
questions because I definitely covered that. Let's see, spiral or mastery Paula
asked. I found that interesting because I would say mastery approach because it's
fully you're mastering the concepts but I was watching some of the responses
from other people and I saw that Randy had commented, he's from Master Books
which is the publishing company that published the the new rendition of this
that's what else I was gonna say and I don't have a pen or I would write it down
cuz I'll forget. ok um he had said that somebody had reviewed it in the
education, school world and said that it was both because basically is a mastery
approach we're gonna master this concept together with the spiral approach of a
review built right in so as you're mastering you're constantly reviewing
and then you master something else but you're constantly reviewing what you've
learned so it brings in the best of both rather than being one or the other which
is awesome right you don't have to choose you can have your cake and eat it
too that's what I was gonna say see I've already forgotten I'll remember.
Not thorough enough which I've addressed "How does Charlotte Mason differ from public
school?" Public school if you're looking at homeschool styles is is traditional
learning traditional learning of what our culture tells us learning needs to
be where it's bookwork and you sit down and you just do all this book work and
all these worksheets and that's what you do you sit at your desk and you do your
book work and you're tested um whereas Charlotte Mason is different Charlotte
Mason is let's learn through life let's find ways of helping that speak to you
all around let's make it enjoyable let's make it relational learning and that's
what this math brings into it that relational concept of learning and I was
going to say something else about that - testing! Testing you guys. My own two
cents on testing and I know that Angela would agree with me here because it's built
right into this. The Charlotte Mason concept of testing is narration and what we mean
when we say narration is that your child has to explain to you
the concept. If I work with my mathematically challenged daughter and I
talked to her about place value and she's doing place value, she's doing it
correctly. She can say a number 1362 so the understanding is there but is the
mastery there? If I gave her a test she would get it right because she would
write that number correctly or she would understand the place value but if I say
to her tell me why you pronounce that why do you say 1000?
How do you know what each of those numbers represents? what is place value?
she can't tell me because she hadn't mastered place value. Did she know it? yeah she kind of
knew it and was practicing it but has she mastered it? Now if I given her a
test I never would have known that. It's only through narration when, and it's
built right into the program because it will say, 'have your child narrate to you
the connection between division and multiplication' what's the connection
between those? that division is basically just finding the missing number if you
already know your multiplication. Right? So it's finding these connection points
if your child can't say that because they haven't fully mastered what is
multiplication and what is division then they're doing it but they haven't
mastered the concept so rather than testing our kids which can bring stress
and anxiety to your child can make them feel like they're failing and it is not
the best way of finding and identifying where your child is at, we use narration
which helps us fully see in a very quick amount of time, it's fast I don't need to
set no timer and do no 20 minute quiz I can ask my child a question and based
upon their answer or lack thereof I can very quickly identify okay you've
mastered this but you're missing this there's a missing point here that you're
not grasping we need to reinforce this we, I need to do that part of your lesson
with you for a little while we need to go back to using or place-value village so that
you can really understand the concept behind this because I want you to master it.
Those are my two cents about for people that are concerned about testing and
again if my child is doing enough because in this program there narrating
throughout they are because they're mastering it. One of the things that when
Angela and I were talking about this of, "is this enough and how do we know that this
is gonna be enough?" is that this has a much longer track record than what
people think. People think this is a brand new program and it just came out
and you know because it's becoming so popular it's hitting the world kind of
thing and people are thinking, 'Well it's new it's not really tested how do we
know that it's enough?' but the reality is this is not a new program this was
published, Angela correct me if I'm wrong, but in 2010 Angela published it. It's
just that is now been picked up by Master Books and is being reformatted
and pushed out again and published under Master bBooks as the publisher so it's
been re-edited, there's a new version of it and it's awesome, color, bright
engaging but the program itself was already there and it has just
testimonial after testimonial after testimonial of children that it's
worked for that have used it all the way through so if you're concerned about
that to keep that keep that in your mind. "How does the cost of printing compare to buying
the books?" if you're in the US it is way better to buy the books. I mean that couple
dollar difference, printing is way more than that. But if you are in Canada then
I would recommend it's probably gonna cost you, if you do it in black and white
it's probably gonna cost you about eight to ten dollars or whatever to
print it and that's gonna be way less than your shipping cost so that's why I
say PDF. Use the coupon code (REBECCASFRIEND) and then print it at Staples here in canada okay so here are
his flashcards that he made so the same idea of he wrote a story for each one
and then he colored it and he illustrated it and he writes the entire
math fact this way so that there are memorizing the whole math facts rather
than just parts of it and then on the other side you write it up and down so
again visually when he sees that he's gonna do it like that because he's
seeing in both directions um okay here's another one that he made. Ii know you
can't really see super well. You can see his coloring though, right? um "There were
seven hummingbirds and two bears and there was nine mooses and the mooses
won." It's all about them building connection with those numbers though and
once he colored this and did it you guys oh my goodness, hi retention on these is
crazy so there's the flashcards um "Are there some kind of hands-on projects?" yes
there are there's a storyline that it follows and there's hands-on projects
in Math three in the beginning they are making... Well, for time I don't
know if you guys ever saw where I did an entire week, I think I did it with level two
I did an entire week with Math Lessons for a Living Education and we
pulled out... he was understanding time okay the concept of time, and so we made
an entire poster for it where we drew out circles and it was included in here
it told us what to do and said take a poster board and draw 12 circles on each
side and they had to make the cloth of 12 o'clock one o'clock two o'clock three
o'clock one side was a.m. one side was p.m. and then he had to draw pictures of what
he was doing at each of those times he rolled that up took it with him
everywhere he went. He called it his life plan from whatever that show is and
he loved it loved it! And he fully grasped the concept he understands time better
than any of my other kids because he did this project.
So yes there are hands-on projects included. It's a story based learning
that breaks it down. Even when they introduced word problems I was blown
away because before we even got into solving word problems we first talked
about word problems and the steps that we should go through of writing down the
different numbers or circling the different numbers that we're talking
about looking for clue words like how many are what's the difference of or we
can add or subtract it broke it down for us so when we got into word problems it
wasn't this huge hard thing it was okay we have a clear step-by-step process
we're gonna work through. yeah Teaching Textbooks is expensive the thing is I
that's why I say like as far as what I'm gonna use moving forward once we're past
level six at this point there were things that I really loved about it but
I just found that as far as the foundation and what was happening was
we had done almost an entire year of it and then we kind of took a
break for summer and we went back to it and my daughter had so many gaps she
hadn't mastered. She had been doing it but she hadn't mastered it and so we
were we were struggling then moving forward because there were so many gaps
in her learning. So because of that, this made a huge difference for us and we
have to continue with this specifically for her because she just has so many
gaps and we have to go through it really slowly so that she can help to reinforce
and build that mastery because there's no point pushing them ahead you guys no
point you keeping up if your kids aren't there if they're not mastering it and we
are failing our kids by pushing them ahead for the sake of being at the same
grade level as their peers. My two cents. Talina, you're terrified of teaching? yeah
seriously you want to laugh? go watch my "Mom tries to do her child's math" I did
the grade six one and I'm glad I didn't do the fractions one I think that I did that
specifically because I would failed I would have failed. You feel like it's
teaching me in a way you never learned yourself. Exactly I love that yeah
With unschooling I think this works really really well because the idea
behind unschooling is child directed learning or
delight directed learning or having your child be interested in it and
passionate about it not just giving our children busy work for the sake of doing
it and because of the story concepts built into this it is engaging and your
kids will want to do it and therefore retain it so much more because it's not
this huge battle to get them to do their math. Yes it won't be an issue to switch
to Teaching Textbooks I mean like I said I did two placement tests and they are
well-prepared well-prepared to go straight into it so
what I found was so this curriculum will walk you through how to build your own
place value village with beans you don't need to spend a whole lot of money on
manipulatives right? It's everything that you have around your house but what I
found was that my space is so small in here it's like this little nook room and
I have no space that I'm working with plus my kids were playing with the beans
a lot so I was contemplating how to continue to use something that was not
that I didn't have a lot of space for and was making a huge mess and I found this really
simple app I don't know if you'll be able to see it because of glare but it's
called place value and it's just it doesn't go thousands so it's not perfect but it
has ones, tens, and hundreds I don't know if you can see it there and basically
what you do try to turn it down for glare is you tap one and it puts the
number up there four, five, six, seven, eigh,t nine, ten and you'll see once I get
to ten it turns red I don't know if you can tell that that's red so that means
that they can't fit so I need to move it over to the tens house now I've got one
ten, zero ones so they can actually write it down they can keep their charts which
looks like let's see if I have it here
but the place value chart they could take it out, here we go
and they could be writing it on their place value chart at the same time as
they're building it with the dots and then when they're done or you want to
reset you just swipe it up and it clears it, isn't that cool? so you can either do
this and build a number to see it okay 144 or you could have them build it and
count all the way up to that number if they really need to grasp the concept
where you're building all the way from ones and then a ten and then building
and then when you have ten tens it'll tell you that's too many and ten tens
you got to move it over to the hundreds house isn't that cool?
So it was 97 cents or something like that it's not perfect but it's a neat
solution if you are if you're chid's struggling with place value. Karla, "you
love it so much what other materials would you recommend to use with this a
learning clock?" it's all built into here so they make their own clocks you can
you can get a learning clock I mean they're like six dollars on on Amazon
that you could try where they can build it along with the lessons it's not
necessary though, everything that you need is at the back, there is a manipulative
section and you would rip out and you can laminate or just use and you can
you know, reinforce everything you're learning there. Of course there's
additional things that you can add to the program and supplement with but it's
not necessary. So it's a way of making it really affordable for families but still
adaptable to be used however you want to. "The best way to retain math facts that's
your biggest hurdle you practice and practice and she just can't remember"
that's our warning you guys five minutes and actually I'm gonna use this as a
warning that in five minutes I'm gonna wrap this up because I think I have
been droning for quite some time yes it's been an hour!
You guys you stuck with me for an hour! If you have been here since the
beginning you're amazing, gold star! So the best way to retain math facts are
these which again is built into the program. It will tell you to work on your
math flashcards your right brained flashcards where you're combining
the logical concept with the creative which is helping your
whole brain to see it as well as you're kinesthetically creating and you're
drawing and you're seeing visually so it builds in and then you're reading it to
yourself you're reading the story or you're reading the seven plus two equals
nine so it's all these connection points helping you to retain and master and
learn that very quickly because you're engaging all of your senses. The best way
are these math flashcards. If they're struggling with multiplication, do these.
If they're struggling with division, do these! They are the best way to retain
math facts when they can be engaged in part of it. It's time-consuming take your
time add it to every day of your math say
"okay we're going to two or three of these a day" so it's not too much and
we're just going to continually add to it and then every day build in time
working through your flashcards spend less time doing this and more time
doing this! If your child is struggling you're wondering about reinforcing you
know helping them where there are gaps and you're continuing to learn new
concepts you can either slow down on the math that you're doing or continue with
that but also do these which is built into the programs you should be doing it
all and if you're not and your child has gaps
it might be worth adding them it's worthwhile time investment it really is
because it's gonna help them master these concepts and it's just a little
bit of day don't overwhelm them a little bit, five minutes with your math
flashcards I want you to flip them around and teach them to your brother
five minutes we're gonna work on our flashcards today and add some new ones
some new ones that we learned or that you're struggling with. "Level six is
geared to what age group?" middle school age level six would be about grade 6
level the reason that we're not boxing it in with grades is because
every child is different and there's gaps and you want to go back if your
child has gaps you're taking that placement test and you're mostly ready
for this but not quite always better to go back always hands down is gonna build
their confidence and bring them an enjoyment in that subject and they can
whip through it fast if they want you and if most of it they get
gonna help them enjoy it a lot more so when they move on they're ready for it
and they don't have a bad taste in their mouth when they're considering that
subject. "Won't they get bored by going back?" again, dependent on your child
because it's not 50 pages, I'm exaggerating, of math that they would be
doing in a day it's a couple pages I would say likely no. Most kids are gonna
go through it and say wow two pages of this and they went through it really
really fast and then they're gonna hit something that they kind of struggle
with and they'll take them or you know they'll have to take more time with but
you can also skip you could skip to where it seems appropriate and I did
that with my daughter who we started a new math book because she fully had
understood everything of hers but we skipped all the beginning and because we were
starting in the middle of the year and we weren't doing a summer
break we didn't need to do all the review so we skipped all the review and
we went right into the new stuff. So adapt it make it work for your family.
All right, that's it guys! All the information I can possibly give you in a
short amount of time. We could talk all day about this and hopefully sometime
soon Angela and I can do a Zoom or a webinar about this where we can talk
from the experience of author and homeschool mom and you know bring it all
together for you guys and answer some of these questions in a different format
where you can see both our faces and hear both of our voices so that's it
that's all I have for you have an amazing homeschool day and I hope to see
you guys again whenever I go live next! Stay tuned watch my page!
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