Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

Tagged: math placement

This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 9 months ago by Karen Smith.

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March 5, 2019 at 9:31 am
Emily
Participant
If I am able to homeschool next year, I’ll be pulling my daughter out of public school. She is advanced according to their standards and will be in 3rd grade next year. I’m afraid she won’t be able to do SCM book 2. And book 3 won’t be finished in time. Also she has learned math in a spiral approach. Would switching to MUS still work for her? She doesn’t know her times tables so I can some of SCM book 2 being beneficial and even a review for solidifying the math facts. She catches on quick and I don’t want her to be bored. She already knows time and has it down pat! I’m putting together a plan for my husband so we can hash this out again soon!! He needs to see long term plan!!
March 6, 2019 at 8:19 am
Richele Baburina
Participant
Hello Emily,
Having a flexible long-term plan in place is a good idea and SCM provides such wonderful resources to do just that. Have you seen them?
Book 2 includes larger multiplication, including double-digit multiplication, multiplication by 10s, 100s, and 1000s, as well as short division, and addition &subtraction up to 1,000 and the important mental math, which your daughter may or may not have encountered. With Book 2, you’d have the methods to continue through what is the beginning of Book 3. We don’t have to worry about mastery/spiral approach with Mason’s living way and you’ll see some experimental work while also plenty of review to help the ideas a child’s already grasped become second nature while providing a solid foundation and good habits that become evident when higher math is reached. hth
Warmly,
Richele
March 6, 2019 at 10:05 am
Emily
Participant
Thank you for your reply!! This helps a lot. She hasn’t learned any multiplication and some of the other things you’ve mentioned even though she has few months left. What kind of manipulatives does this book say to use for teaching! I have been looking more at MUS and love it but these books seem more affordable and lovely approach!! Math isn’t my forte so I’m hoping the books teach me how to teach math as well! I have been emailing back and forth with Tami and she’s been a great help and getting my plan together!!
March 6, 2019 at 11:41 am
Karen Smith
Moderator
The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic books use everyday objects for manipulatives, things like buttons, beans, craft sticks, and money (pennies, dimes, dollars).