I'm just about ready to order a new math book for my son. I thought I would put a quick note out here to plug our favorite newest math curriculum, Life of Fred Math!
I highly recommend Life of Fred Math from Polka Dot Publishing.
In our homeschool career, we started with Miquon and really, really thought it gave my boys a great base and I learned to do mental math so much better. We were so sad that there was only six books in the Miquon series and so I was off searching for a new curriculum. We chose Singapore at that time. Each of my children did well on the placement tests. Towards the end of Singapore, I was not really liking how they were attempting to discuss algebra, but not really teaching algebra. Before then, it was good, but nothing spectacular. (As a homeschool parent, I thought that hardest thing about Singapore was going back and forth between workbook and text book and the great differences in the amount of work per exercise and/or review.)
So I began the hunt for a new curriculum for my 11 and 9 year old boys. I had heard others talk of Life of Fred so I wanted to check it out. I asked and some friends had some books to let me see.
The first in the Elementary Series, Apples, was completely consumed within the first 24 hours by my younger son and was hungry for more! I started my older son on Fractions. And they were off.
What I love:
- All of the math is applied.
- There are not tons of problems to overwhelm (and mom to cull out)
- Tons of additional factoids to learn along the way
- My kids love it and want to do it!
- They work very independently.
- They can't wait to get to calculus to get the entire story of how Fred at 5 is a professor at KITTENS University.
Now I'm off to order Pre-Algebra with Economics.
Even if you are not a homeschool parent, these are fun books if you want to supplement some math at home!
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