Videotext Math…MUS….Teaching Text…junior high

I haven’t used the other two programs, I only know MathUSee.  I do not consider myself competent in math at all.  I took math only up to high school geometry and had such a miserable time I quit.  Then I took one college algebra class but it was at a community college in a shopping mall and the others there were worse than me and we  never got past negative numbers.  Then I showed up in graduate school to find I was enrolled in mandatory graduate level calculus.  Well.  That was fun.  Anyway, to be honest most things make SO MUCH MORE SENSE explained the MUS way.  I feel pretty good about my ability to handle through geometry.  After that my dh has helped some.  And then there’s this guy named Peter that apparently lives in the computer somewhere at MUS and who extricated us from the various algebra II-precalc-calc messes we got ourselves tangled in.  (it’s called Live Help and it’s worth its weight in gold!)  I have done everything I could to make myself as able to help as possible–I watch the videos, I read the TM, I go over the answers on the answer page, and then I look at my student’s answers, and most of the time we’ve been able to figure it out.  When I can’t we go find Peter.  There were a few times I gave up and sent my KID to go find Peter because I didn’t even think I could explain what we didn’t understand–but those were rare times, limited to precalc and calculus. 

I personally get lost somewhere in the last third of Algebra II.  I’ve been through it TWICE the MUS way now and still am lost.  And then anything after that is pretty much Greek.  🙂  But we’ve gotten there, and both older sons have tested well.  This is do-able.  It’s even kind of fun.  I sort of LIKE geometry now.  And I could probably now figure out how to figure out how much paint to buy without crying.  LOL