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May 5, 2010 at 6:05 pm
pangit
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I’m trying to figure out how many lessons are in the MUS alpha and primer books. Is each topic listed on the MUS website a lesson or can there be more than one lesson per topic?
Thanks
May 5, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Rebekahy
Participant
There are six worksheets per topic (off the top of my head). So I think that there’s 30 topics in Alpha and then 6 worksheets per each topic – 180 pages of work. If you’re not using the Organizer, may I suggest that you schedule in extra time to complete the later lessons in the book – they require mastery (and hence memorization) of addition and subtraction facts – you’ll likely need more than six days to make certain your child has the facts memorized – we just printed out extra worksheets and used the online drill from the website to get enough practice to have these facts “down”. We LOVE, LOVE Math u see! Enjoy!
Rebekah
May 5, 2010 at 6:48 pm
houseofchaos
Participant
If you look under Support, Downloads, Scope and Sequence, it will tell you how many lessons. Alpha has 30 lessons, 6 workpages (lettered A-F) for each lesson. We do not have Primer, but it also has 30 lessons. I suspect there are also 6 workpages for each lesson, though. All their other books are in that format.
Hoep that helps!
Gaeleen
May 5, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Bookworm
Participant
All of the books are not in that format–Algebra and above are very different, with varying numbers of lessons up to 35 or so, and very different workbook pages–there are not 6 per lesson. Just didn’t want anyone confused about the upper levels! We can answer most questions on those as I have all the upper-level books here except Calc.
May 5, 2010 at 8:12 pm
pangit
Participant
Thank you so much!!
I will look up the Scope and Sequence, too.
We have dial-up, so times it gets frustrating trying to navigate sites. It seems I waste so much time trying to get something done!!
Do you usually do one worksheet per day or do you have time to do more than one?
May 5, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Bookworm
Participant
I recommend doing work for a set amount of time—say, fifteen or twenty minutes for younger kids–and not pay attention to how many worksheets they do. In twenty minutes, you might do 3 pages, or one problem on one page, depending on what is being studied and how well the student is learning the material. Remember, remember, MUS is a MASTERY program. You should work on a lesson as long as your student needs to work on the concept, until mastery is achieved–whether that is five minutes or two months! Sometimes your children will need to do every worksheet and still need extra practice. Sometimes my kids can teach a concept to me after just doing one worksheet (although I often have them do the spiral review and word problems anyway) Don’t base your days on “worksheets” but on mastery of the concept and attention.
May 5, 2010 at 9:34 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Yup – I have to agree. Plan on doing math each day for your scheduling, and don’t plan how far you are going to get in any course.
I use MEP which has about 175 lessons aprox in a year. Sounded not too bad for 160 days of school, plus a bit more in the summer, or skipping some of the review pages…. But I learned pretty quick that some of the lessons needed to be broken into 2. My son also had problems with a VERY basic concept needed in MEP (Less than and More than) that I had to do a couple of things on our own. And some interruptions came into our school (sickness in family etc)….
I have come to the conclusion that math will come at the speed it comes. I aim to do a MEP lesson each day, but if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen. Wherever we end up at the end of the year will be fine, and we will do some during summer too. (and I won’t have to go looking for review material in the summer!)
May 6, 2010 at 1:07 pm
houseofchaos
Participant
Thank you, Bookworm! What my post should have said was “all their books up to Zeta are that way”…..