Hi, lnosborn, now I remember that arithmetic book! I do like this book and I used with my youngest for his first year of math while I was researching CM’s methods. One thing we incorporated was rather than only looking at a static picture, utilizing manipulatives found in our home (beans, buttons, craft sticks) for my child to work with. No matter which book you choose, you may find the need to come up with more of your own interesting problems and have your child come up with problems of their own as well. I promise, once you start doing it, it is simple to do and your kids will have loads of fun being creative with their questions. I’m sure you will find that early arithmetic lessons become a special and enjoyable time with your child. As with Ray’s, you won’t have the same hands-on changing of money that Charlotte’s school’s utilized.
If you purchase a printing from a digital copy from Amazon, read the reviews as some of the reprints are missing parts of the pictures.
I hope you do explore more of CM’s living teaching for math. Her methods, from writing numerals, to oral work, to finding the beauty and truth, and making relations, follow so closely to the way other subjects were taught in a living way. I’ve been amazed at how learning pure number and writing are done in the same way as her early reading lessons. Oral problems and no worksheets correspond to oral narrations found in history and literature.
I’ll keep exploring Mr. Potter’s other math books as well. I see he does go on to Ray’s New Intellectual Arithmetic.
Best,
Richele
