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SallyT
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Posted: Aug 16 2011 at 8:54am \| IP Logged

Re MEP -- if concepts are easy for your child, you can do the scripted lessons with the board work and mental math and skip a lot of the workbook exercises that just repeat the teacher-led lessons. And although MEP stays in single digits longer than your standard curriculum, they're also introducing advanced concepts early, so it's worth it to work through even what looks like too-easy lessons so as not to miss the introduction of a new concept.

We played around with MEP at the end of last year and will use it as our sole primary-level math this year. On the advice of folks on the MEP-homeschoolers yahoo group, I'm taking both my 2nd and 3rd graders back to the beginning of Y1 for review, with the idea that we'll probably do two lessons at a go until we hit something we need to focus on more carefully. My kids have enjoyed the lessons, especially the work at the whiteboard, so we'll concentrate more on that and less on the workbook pages until we find we need to slow down and practice more.

I'm thinking I need to do this, because even though my 3rd grader is essentially good at and likes math, and can handle multi-digit problems in addition and subtraction, he has not done multiplication yet, and it's hard to see where just to jump in with that in MEP. So I figure the review of basics won't hurt him any more than it will hurt my more-struggling 2nd grader.

Anyway . . . not living math, but having used MCP and then tried this, I am won over. It's fun, I can teach two grade levels together, and by the time we've finished a week of lessons, we've been through an array of different concepts with which we begin to build . . . get ready for the CM-philosophy part -- *relationships* to nurture over the long term.

Gotta love that, right?

Sally

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Posted: Aug 19 2011 at 9:23pm \| IP Logged

lapazfarm wrote:

Just wanted to come here and say THANK YOU to Krista and others for the recommendation of the I Love Math series. I picked up six of them (including Nature math) used from Abe books and they just came in the mail today---they are perfect!!!Just what I was looking for! I am sure dd will love them. THANK YOU!!!!

I just saw this!! I am so glad you like them! Aren't they just wonderful? We are still sooo enjoying them.

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