Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Best math textbooks for home schoolers?

I've used Abeka, BJUP, Saxon, and now Math-U-See. I like MUS by FAR the best of the 4. You can move through it quickly because you can spend 6 or so days on each lesson, or if your child understands the concept some weeks I've done the teaching on Monday and the first worksheet, the student has done a review worksheet on Tuesday, and taken the test on Wednesday. The way MUS lessons are set up is, they have 5 or 6 worksheets plus a test on the same topic, whereas other math programs break the same material down into 5 or 6 separate lessons, so you have to teach each lesson for the student to 'get' the material. Plus, they have WORKBOOKS, and that saves time because your student doesn't have to copy down each problem. There is a DVD that has teaching for each lesson, and sometimes my kids can then do the worksheets on their own, while other times I have to help them. The teacher's edition has every single problem worked out, which you don't get in other high school math courses unless you pay extra for it. Plus, the TE has VERY CLEAR explanations. I found the Saxon explanations to be rather wordy.

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