Making Math Meaningful?

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  • October 4, 2016 at 5:10 pm
    Sarah Himbaugh
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    Has anyone ever used Making Math Meaningful from Cornerstone Curriculum? Just stumbled upon it online today.  The author quotes Charlotte Mason a few times but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s REALLY CM friendly. So, I just wondered if anyone else has experience with it.  I have such a hard time evaluating curriculum from the teeny samples online.

    October 4, 2016 at 5:42 pm
    alphabetika
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    You’ll have to take my thoughts with a grain of salt because I only used MMM for one year fifteen years ago with a 2nd grader. My memory of it was that the lessons were quite long, un-CM in that way. I thought it would help me because it was so scripted and I don’t remember it as being a bad math year, exactly, but MMM wasn’t the right fit for my dd so we only used it for that one year. I’m not sure if it’s changed or not, but I sort of doubt it because when I look at samples of other Cornerstone Curriculum that I used it hasn’t changed a bit.

    October 5, 2016 at 8:01 am
    MissusLeata
    Participant

    I hated MMM. My child loved it. He was excited about math and looked forward to it. But for me, there was too much prep work. I hated having to find straws and cut them different shapes for math. I’d rather buy a kit of manipulatives than have to cut and measure to prepare for a lesson. I’m lazy like that….but if I’d known it ahead of time, I could have saved myself a lot of money since it is a spendy curriculum. And because I hated it, we didn’t finish it and I bought something else.

    October 5, 2016 at 4:31 pm
    Karen Smith
    Moderator

    I used Making Math Meaningful many years ago. While I liked the format, I discovered after several years of using it that it did not have enough practice problems, there was not enough instruction for my children who struggled with math, and the answer key had many wrong answers in it.

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