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AndieF
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Posted: Aug 12 2009 at 10:27pm | IP Logged Quote AndieF
For reasons to do with mostly budget, I will teaching 3 different math curriculums to 4 different children. My 10 year old nephew will be doing Saxon 6/5 (able to get at our Curriculum sale for $35.) My 9 year daughter will be doing Everyday Math 4 (Lent to me for free). My 8 year old nephew will be doing Math U See Beta (have all the other materials, just need to purchase him a new Student book), and my 7 year old daughter will be doing Saxon 2 (able to get at the Curriculum Sale for $2.50.)

Now that we are 2.5 weeks away from starting school, I'm suddenly afraid that it is going to be really difficult to teach all those grades with mostly different curriculums.

I originally had wanted to do Math U See or Right Start for everyone, but I couldn't afford it.

Has anyone ever tried teaching this many grade levels with different curriculums? Am I going to go crazy? (Or crazier??? )

Should I even mention that they all used (and my current preschooler uses) a modified Montessori Math at the preschool level????

Andie, homeschooling mom to dd 9, dd 7, and ds 4.
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Posted: Aug 13 2009 at 12:18am | IP Logged Quote ALmom
Don't worry. I do this a lot. There are advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is each text will have some really insightful, but different, ways to present a concept. If one doesn't work, you get the idea from the other book while still sticking with your main text. Everyone is close enough in age that you'll be able to pull from a more basic conceptual/concrete presentation in one book and still work in the book the child is using. It often helps to explain something in multiple ways. Whatever came with MUS (blocks and how to use them to demonstrate concepts will work with whatever math text). I rarely use my MUS text, but I do pull out those blocks and the way they show fractions and use them with whatever text we happen to be working with this year, with this child.

Sometimes you are not as familiar with different texts, but the reality is that with differing ages, we rarely teach them together anyways. It isn't like you can typically teach math as one large group. There may be a bit of getting used to the text at first and with a few extras you may take an extra week or so to sort it all out - but honestly, I love having a few different ideas to pull from when my brain is in permanent "no creativity" mode and I need to help someone over a hump.

You may find this "windfall" of variety a real blessing.

Janet
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