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Posted: Jan 21 2008 at 4:58pm | IP Logged Quote folklaur
Hi,

I know TT starts at 5th grade now. Any suggestions on what to use beforehand, if you know you will be switching to that as soon as you are able? Math is so NOT my strong suit, and I have played the curriculum hop with it for oldest DD, and now ds9 too - and I don't want to do that. I have yet to find a program that really works well (besides TT.) I can't stand Saxon, and have tried Singaprore, the old Math-U-See, and ds9 is currently using Horizons but we just trudge through....he doesn't love it, but he does it, but he is GOOD at maths/sciences, and I hate for him to have to trudge....

any advice?
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Posted: Jan 21 2008 at 6:27pm | IP Logged Quote Bridget
I am leaning towards using MCP math till TT. They are simple, inexpensive, the pages are well laid out and are not overwhelming.   I can still help the child at that math level.     (The MUS manipulatives work well with MCP.)

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Posted: Jan 23 2008 at 5:41pm | IP Logged Quote folklaur
So, I emailed TT and asked them, and they said:

"I'm afraid we don't [have suggestions of what to use prior], but we are working on some more lower grades. We should have Math 4 this spring and they are talking about Math 3 in the fall."


I thought some others might be interested in knowing that younger grades are coming out!
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Posted: Jan 31 2008 at 2:20pm | IP Logged Quote Tina P.
Laura:

I know I'm hugely late in this discussion, but we use TouchMath. After my two oldest became acquainted with the TouchMath method, they segued into 7th and 8th grade TT.

My 3rd is 10. He's still in TouchMath until the end of this year. Then I'm testing him to see where he'll end up in TT.

Hope that helps!

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