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Math suggestions needed.
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Kelley is right in that MM would be affordable with the downloads.
Doesn’t Miquin use manipulatives?
If any combination would work, if you needed more review on a particular topic, it would be MM topic downloads with CLE. Some of your kids might need more review than others, so the page of addition problems for drill from MM would prove helpful for the child who needs it. You wouldn’t have to Google free pages or either such time consuming activities; just print it from your downloaded MM.
Some of your kids may find only MM works for them and others CLE. Others, the combo mentioned above.
It seems to me to gain the mist simplicity and sanity for you comes first, combined with effectiveness. Make sense?
Again, I suggest looking samples.
As for your 5 yr old, maybe give him some numbers and letters coloring books or Kumon books and tell him those are his workbks?
I have sometimes found workbooks at the Dollar Tree that satisfy the younger ones who are begging “to do school.” I also like the Rod &Staff preschool books. They are fairly inexpensive.
We have used Math Mammoth grades 1 to 3 on CD. I would print the lessons that I wanted to use. From what I remember, most lessons are not just one page. Some had 3 or 4 pages. My daughter found them confusing because they would teach multiple ways to think about math/to solve problems. Some children respond well to that, but she has been happier with math since we started using ABeka workbooks. We rarely do any of the activities in the teacher manual though, and I will usually mark out some of the review problems unless it is a concept she needs to work on more.
I second the suggestion of looking at the samples. I think someone also mentioned that it is a good resource to supplement with.
I’d avoid Math Mammoth if you’re trying to avoid making more work for yourself. It’s just a workbook that says “Solve these problems using additon”, “See if you can figure out the puzzle”, etc. No actual instruction is given. Imagine opening a cookbook and reading “Make a roux and then mix in the vegetables”, with no ingredients listed for the roux or directions on how to make it. That is what Math Mammoth is like.
There are actual instructions given in Math Mammoth. We’re using it, and there are instructions with samples on many of the sections. Not sure where you’re getting that there aren’t instructions.
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