Making Math Meaningful vs Math on the Level

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  • April 20, 2015 at 8:06 pm
    MamaWebb
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    Has anyone here used either the newer version of Making Math Meaningful or Math on the Level?  I’m interested in that conceptual real-life application that both seem to provide.

    TIA,

    Amy

    April 21, 2015 at 8:37 am
    retrofam
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    I looked into both, but decided against them. I have heard that with MMM it is difficult to start later such as 4th grade, which we would have been.  I was fortunate enough to see a workbook,  which dd was not attracted to.  For those who are not naturally math minded, it looked difficult.  Just our opinion.

    MOTL I talked myself out of because I needed to be honest with myself.  I would not keep up with writing the 5 daily review problems.  I really like the idea of customized review,  and the small amount of problems, but I don’t enjoy math and have multiple children.

     

    Livingmath.net sells lesson plans for math history. There are tons of math literature books.  I love this idea, and was going to do that next year,  but I found out that I am expecting.  I was going to do math history plus another math curriculum for three students next year.  I hope to do math history in the future for several years.  Instead I am going to add a math literature book weekly.

     

    Hth,

    Retrofam

    April 24, 2015 at 3:21 pm
    MamaWebb
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    thanks.  i am most led toward MOTL….4/5 of my kids struggle to APPLY the conceptual use of math problems, and they struggle to get through our other maths.  With one kid, who truly hates math, we’ve used MUS for the first three years, then I tried ACE paces math for her third grade year – ok, but she barely progressed and I didn’t like how it taught.  This year I bit the bullet and bought Teaching Textbooks.  She’s done ok, but certainly not great.  It has a lot of pointless review (for her) and it is hard for me to oversee with it being on the computer.  She actually had been hiding her daily scores and not being honest about them.  So, what is appealing to me about MOTL is that I’d be overseeing all three younger kids together.  I can write 15 problems.  We CM-unschool-do our own thing anyway, so I don’t think it’s too much.  I like that I can have them together, but each doing their own thing, plus all the real life application.  It focuses on relationship and concept and individual levels, so I’m really leaning that way.  My 4th oldest is the math brain, so I’d just move him into Algebra 1 MUS anyway, and my oldest is finishing MUS Alg 2, so I think I might have her do the MUS stewardship or maybe the business math here or something.  She wants to go into missions anyway.  Or ministry…she won’t need pre-Calc or Calc in life, lol!

    Now to convince my husband….

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