Curriculum
- Our family has used and loved A Beka Arithmetic. My personal opinion (and it’s so humble, wink, wink…) is that this is the best curriculum on the market.
- Life of Fred – This is the curriculum we’re currently using for high school, and we like it very much.
- Math on the Level is a curriculum I’ve just heard about, and I’m so impressed with the idea. I recommend that you check it out and see if it would be a good fit for your family.
- Moving with Math
- Singapore Math – this curriculum has received many awards for its simplicity and thoroughness.
- Ray’s Arithmetic (Mott Media) – this curriculum comes highly recommended by several visitors
- Making Math Meaningful – another math curriculum that receives much applause!
- Math ‘n’ Stuff
- First Lessons in Numbers – a free online math curriculum for the lower grades
- A Plus Math Worksheets – Print math worksheets for free from your computer, or do worksheets online and have them corrected immediately
- SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator
- Math-U-See – I have two very good friends who are using this curriculum, with fabulous results I might add!
- Teaching Textbooks, for higher level math, has received top reviews.
- Systematic Mathematics — homeschool math curriculum on CD and DVD. I’ve personally reviewed this curriculum, and I thought it was very helpful and easy to understand. I applaud them for a great product!
Articles and Teaching Helps
- Article: The Teaching of Arithmetic: The Story of an Experiment tells why public school arithmetic programs have failed to properly educate our children.
- Math from a Christian Perspective – Resources on how to view and teach math from a biblical worldview.
- Multiplication: An Adventure in Number Sense
- The Abacus — the age-old “manipulative” and how to build and use it
- How to teach multiplication facts
- Times Tales — memory helps for learning your times tables.
- Living Math — building a bridge between math and other fields of academics, by helping children see the relevance of mathematics
- Math Cats – lots of fun ways to explore math ideas (my girls like this). It also includes MicroWorlds and Logo code stuff, for any young computer designers you have in your house.
- AIMS — Activities Integrating Math and Science
- A fun game for learning Roman numerals
- Free graph paper (and more!)
