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Teaching Textbooks 3.0 Review (Math 4, Algebra 1 and Geometry)

July 28, 2019 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

I received three Teaching Textbooks 3.0 subscriptions for my children. However, all opinions are 100% my own and were not changed because I received review copies. 

 

Math can be a four letter word of dread in many homeschool family’s especially if you have more then one child to teach. I feel that math is an important subject that everyone needs a good handle on in order to succeed at life. Whether your child plans to attend college or complete a trade school being able to be sure their paycheck isn’t cheated or balancing a checkbook in order to pay bills is important.

Teaching Textbook Placement Tests

If you are new to homeschooling your child or your child is behind in math then you may not know which grade level aka Teaching Textbooks YEAR to begin with. Their website has you covered with placement tests that you can print off and allow your child to take.  With Eldest and Princess I opted to just enroll them in the next level Math that they would need for high school credit. Eldest is taking Algebra 1 while Princess is taking Geometry.

Teaching Textbooks Math 4 placement test

I wasn’t quite sure what Big Red would need so I gave him a placement test. I looked over Math 3 and realized it would be too easy for him. I then printed off the Math 4 placement test and set him to task to complete it. Once he completed the Math 4 placement test and it was scored by Princess we determined that Math 4 was the correct year for him.

You can also just jump right in with the Teaching Textbooks 3.0 Free Trial which includes the first 15 lessons for as many levels as you want to try. This allows your family to get a feel for the curriculum BEFORE committing to it!

Advantages of Teaching Textbooks 3.0

I want to share a few advantages that we have found so far using Teaching Textbooks for this school year.

  1. Your child can login and work on the lesson online.
  2. You can print off lessons to work on at a table or on a clipboard while on the go.
  3. A parent can log in and edit or delete an answer allowing an incorrectly typed answer to be corrected or to give the child a chance to rework a problem.

Since we have a varied schedule with participation in various homeschool groups and family activities it is important to be able to print lessons to take with us and work on them in the car. We also want our children to succeed and learn their math concepts well which means getting each lesson or test above 80%. Grades are NOT the emphasis in our homeschool but we do want our children to have good grades for insurance discounts as the teens drive and for college admissions.

 

Each lessons is structured in the same way with a lecture, practice problems and then the regular problems.

Disadvantages of Teaching Textbooks

No final grade for the year which many family’s could use to help create their child’s report card or transcript. YES, I know that I can add up all the grades and divide and get the percentage myself but having that column added would be a great bonus.

Not realizing that there’s definitions and proofs at the very end of the textbook in the Appendix! My daughter struggled with proofs for over 80% of the year writing out each proof in a notebook.

 

 

Things that Teaching Textbooks Have Improved

Since late Fall 2019 we have noticed some improvements worth mentioning. Less days “offline” or website unavailable then in the beginning and usually only slow on Monday mornings.

Gradebook Updated

TT 3.0 Gradebook updatesWhen you go into your students gradebook you can now quickly see which lessons are complete and which are not. If a student scores low on a lesson and you delete problems for them to correct it’s much easier to see this. If a lesson does not have a C for Complete then it means the Lesson still has problems to complete.

 

 

 Few Reminders about Teaching Textbooks

  • Teaching Textbooks offers a FREE Trial of the first 15 Lessons of any and all of their levels! This is how I started–I saw the quality for myself and was really impressed! If you’re at all curious about TT, I highly encourage you to give the free trial a try! (They will not take any payment information from you for the free trial!)
  • Teaching Textbooks offers a Large Family Discount (12 month subscription for 4-8 students is $199.08)
  • Teaching Textbooks begins at approximately 3rd Grade (Math 3) and goes through high school (Pre-Calculus).

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Telling Time Math Games and Activities

January 24, 2019 By Thaleia 1 Comment

Many children struggle with telling time without hands-on activities and repetition. This list of telling time math games and activities should give your child a variety of fun ways to learn this important concept!

Telling Time Math Games

Over a dozen Telling Time #MathGames for Elementary and Preschool #homeschool

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Filed Under: Homeschool Resources, Homeschooling Tagged With: elementary, math

Free Middle School Math Resources

September 6, 2016 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Middle School Math is a great time to review concepts from Elementary School while learning new things for High School. You will find a variety of resources for grades 5-8 that will help your student in their Math learning journey!

Free Middle School Math Resources

All the books below are free on Kindle and use our affiliate links. Remember any device with the Kindle app will open these textbooks. Take your books with you and study on the go! No sense sitting cooped up inside an a nice Autumn day head out to the park or a cozy spot under a tree in the backyard!

Check out these #MiddleSchool Math Resources! #homeschool #math

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Learning Shapes with a Geoboard

May 17, 2016 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Lil’ Red is at the right age to learn more then your basic shapes of circles and squares. A great way to this is with lots of hands-on learning. Since we own a homemade geoboard I thought this would be a great way to learn shapes.

Learning Shapes with a Geoboard

I found some free printables to work as a guide to show him how to make various shapes. I found geoboard printables that were full sheet or multiple per page of paper. As soon as Lil’ Red saw the paper he wanted to create a house.

geoboard house

Off we set to create the house. We used some stretchy hair bands from Walmart because they don’t snap or break as easy as rubber bands plus these were on clearance!

geoboard house progress

I tried to get him interested in creating the double square or the boat but he only wanted to create the house over and over again all day long.

More Geoboard fun:
Perimeter and Area Geoboard Exploration from Life Over C’s

Stick It Anywhere Geoboard from Adventures of Adam

Learning Shapes with a Geoboard from Something 2 Offer

Symmetry from Kidz Activities

 

Filed Under: Homeschooling, Tools for Learning, Tot School Tagged With: math, shapes

Simple Coin Sorting Activity for Kids

March 1, 2016 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Every once in a while I find items that I had forgotten that I had bought a few years earlier for homeschool. Last week I found a coin sorting and money counting workbook that included the plastic coins.

Coin Sorting Activity for Kids

I created a very simple coin sorting activity for kids both Preschool and Kindergarten age. I wanted a simple activity that both Lil’ Red and Big Red could do to learn some simple money concepts, counting, and coin sorting just seemed to be a great place to start.
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Filed Under: Homeschooling, Kindergarten, Lil' Red, Preschool Prep, Tools for Learning Tagged With: math, sorting

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