The Top 10 Homeschool Math Comparison Review
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2018
- There are so many great math programs out there it can be nearly impossible to decide what will work best for your family... especially if you are shopping online. In this homeschool math curriculum comparison, I pull out the top ten math programs including: Teaching Textbooks vs. Math U See vs. A Beka vs. Singapore vs. Math Lessons for a Living Education vs. Life of Fred vs. JUMP vs. RightStart vs. Horizons vs. Strayer-Upton. I'll show you inside the books, talk about what kind of learning styles and homeschool styles each homeschool math curriculum will work best for and help you compare and identify which one will be a better fit.
LINKS:
Blog post (with pictures and comparison charts): homeschoolon.com/ultimate-home...
Teaching Textbooks: homeschoolon.com/go/teaching-t...
RightStart: homeschoolon.com/go/right-start
Math U See: homeschoolon.com/go/math-u-see
Math Lessons for a Living Education: homeschoolon.com/go/mlfle
A Beka: homeschoolon.com/go/a-beka
JUMP: homeschoolon.com/go/JUMP
Life of Fred: homeschoolon.com/go/life-of-fred
Singapore: homeschoolon.com/go/singapore
Horizons: homeschoolon.com/go/horizons
Strayer-Upton: homeschoolon.com/go/strayer-upton
Saxon: homeschoolon.com/go/saxon
Moving Beyond the Page: homeschoolon.com/go/mbtp-6to8
WHAT WE USE:
We use Math Lessons for a Living Education (Charlotte Mason math totally fits my homeschool style and values) for nearly all of the kids. We have one son who is trying the online version of Teaching Textbooks and one daughter who is using RightStart math. So far it seems to be working well for everyone and we are looking forward to a great year of math!
What we are using for all our curriculum this year: homeschoolon.com/curriculum-re...
I wish she would review EVERYTHING about homeschool! This is amazing and sooo helpful!
Wow. Wow. I am so impressed by your review! Please do MORE of these style reviews!! New subscriber - you are well-spoken, confident, and I love how broad-sweeping and comprehensive your video is!
Thanks Anna!! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions in the future!
Well thank you! I've been listening to your podcasts and watching your videos the last couple of days and I'm really enjoying them☺️
Agreed!
Yes! More reviews. I'm starting with my 5 year old this year and this was very helpful. Now I need the other subjects!
I wanted to add this very important detail regarding the Singapore Math model. In the US, using a standard US math curriculum, the teacher will introduce a new math concept and will deliver a mini-lecture about the math topic. The teacher will focus a great deal of time and attention to showing the students the physical representation of the math problem, which is an abstract "drawing" which has its own particular syntax and is made up of numbers, letters (variables), and symbols. The teaching model that is used in Singapore Math is so much more meaningful and interesting for the students. The teacher starts off discussing the math topic and teaches the students using only concrete everyday objects (blocks, dice, coins, marbles, dice, etc) and students are given a problem that they solve using those concrete objects. They then transition into the 'draw a picture' method to solve the problem; this just means that instead of using the concrete manipulativs, the students will work the problem by drawing anipulatives that they used in the prior step. The 3rd and final step is to show the students the actual math problem -- by now, the students really understand the math topic, and the introduction of the abstract math problem does not deraul them.
I’m sorry I completely disagree it’s a horrible program and the teachers at our school have no idea how to teach it. It’s like common core math…
@@dutchessruru77 Is this the first year that your school is using Singapore Math? Did your school invest in the “train-the-trainer” options to teach the teachers how to teach SM?
Wow!!! What an awesome math review! I’ve been struggling to find a math review as comprehensive as this. Thanks so much.
Even though this video is 4 years old, it is still a huge help with the break down, pros/cons of every curriculum.
Your reviews have saved me so much time. Thank you so much! You've helped this first time homeschool mom soo much!
That was literally the best homeschool review video I've seen. Very well done!
What a phenomenal review!!!! Thank you so much for this incredible, in-depth review across the curriculums!
I appreciate your unbiased review of each program. This was truly an eye opener for me because I have been struggling to find the right fit for my kiddos. Thanks a bunch.
Just starting research for fall homeschooling for first time. This was THE BEST video I've seen so far! Thank you for the thorough explanations w/out personal convictions! Perfect!
This video was such a blessing! It is my first year homeschooling and this is exactly what I needed to help choose what to use!!! Thank you!!! God bless you!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was about to purchase Right Start based on others' recommendations, but I really needed to see all of these choices side-by-side to find exactly what we need. This video is a must-watch for homeschool families.
Such a great video thank you so much for sharing!!! My son is 4 so I’m starting to narrow down our curriculum choices after his preschool book and Math U C was one on the top of my list so I loved hearing your review about it!
Thank you! Our family is new to homeschooling this year and I was struggling to find and choose a math curriculum that would work well for my boys. Your comparison has been a God send. Thanks again.
Thank you! This made it so much easier to pick out the right math style for my daughter! I really appreciate all the work you have done to put this together! Thank you!!!
This is by far the most amazing review of a lot of math curriculum. Even though I have been homeschooling for 2 years now and have some of this math programs at home. Your review gave me more information and would be a blessing for new & considering homeschool families
Thank you so much Tasheema! I'm glad it was helpful and I hope it helps other homeschool moms too!
THE BEST MATH CURRICULUM REVIEW I'VE EVER SEEN!!! THANK YOU
I want to thank you for including Strayer-Upton in the blog. It was exactly what I was looking for. I grew up substituting my learning with these books, but couldn't remember the name, and they really helped me understand concepts and more! I hope to pass that on to my children. Your reviews are also always awesome. Thank you!.
I literally don't know what I'd do without your review videos! I'm homeschooling my kids and my oldest is starting kindergarten. You've given me so much confidence and empowered me to make more informed decisions for my children. Thank you so much for your time and effort!!
Great Reviews! Helpful video! I'm so tired of videos where the homeschooling mom talks a whole lot but really says nothing at all.....this was great!!
Wow, I have been looking for EXACTLY this info for months and months! Thank you so much!!
We will start homeschooling in the Fall. Your curriculum reviews are invaluable! Thank you SO MUCH!!!
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Thank you so much for your reviews! I appreciate the details on both Christian and secular curriculum. Finding your channel has been a huge sigh of relief for a home school mom who feels overwhelmed with all the options out there.
As a new Homeschool Mama, this is the second time I've watched this video. It was so helpful last year and hit home again this year. Thank you for the extensive work you do to help us along. Super excited about what we will use going forward this year. Nice work, lady! :)
I come back to her videos all the time 🙂 I wonder why she doesn’t post often anymore ☹️
This was sooo helpful! It has brought a lot of clarity to deciding on a right fit for our family. Thank you!!
This has been a HUGE help in selecting my 6 year old son's curriculum for this year. Thank you!
Out of all curriculum choices to make math is by far the hardest to pick out. Thank you for making this video. It’s been extremely helpful.
This review was simply phenomenal. I appreciate how detailed it was and your advice on things to consider and think about. All children learn differently and this video helped me make a decision on which curriculum to choose. I can’t thank you enough! I look forward to watching more of your great content. God bless.
Thank you so much Sandra! Hope to bring some more comparison reviews in the future!
I’ve been using Abeka for my Kinder and first grader - I had to stop for the kindergartener because like you said- it definitely moved too fast for him...
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Fantastic reviews!!! I love how you talk about all the considerations!! Awesome resource!
This was an amazing review. So helpful and detailed. Thank you!!!
Such an awesome review!! Thanks for showing the inside of the books. Many UA-camrs don't do that.
Excellent video review! Thank you so very much! I am new at homeschooling and had no idea about all the different math curriculum styles available and this certainly helped.
This was an incredible review!! Best review I've seen on math curriculum! You talked about a lot of the programs I have been researching. This helped SO much!! Thank you!!
Awesome! I'm so glad! It's definitely needed! More comparison reviews!
Thanks for the thorough review! I know a bit about some of these curriculums, but others I’ve never looked in the books of. We’re switching math curriculum this coming fall, so it was definitely interesting seeing them both featured here. 😊
Awesome! Hopefully it helped narrow it down more!
Great review. Just a thought, I think it would be more powerful to compare the same grade across all the curriculum. Also, while RightStart is very teacher intensive in the earlier levels, the last two levels are written to the student and are done independently.
Great input!! Was thinking exactly the same thing…. To compare the same grade across
I was thinking exactly the same...
Great review! We have done the rightstart program from beginning to end with good results in my two oldest. I am now starting it all over with my younger kids and it is hard to give it the time it requires! Still one of the best I have used though.
This video was fantastic. I am an educator, but I will also start homeschooling my children this year. You did a phenomenal job at showing the scope and sequence and explaining the pros and cons of each curriculum. Thank you!
I really have been searching for this style of review for months. Thank you!! You have helped so much with this video. New subscriber:)
Thanks for the video Rebecca. It is nice to see that textbooks now come with some interactive content.
I really appreciate this video! I've ordered all of next year's curriculum except math because I was wavering between two selections. One we've used for years, but I kinda felt like it was time to try something new. I don't know anyone who has used MLFLE so your review was extremely helpful and answered questions I had about it.
This was AMAZING!! You should do this with all the other subjects! This is my first year homeschooling and I really wanted a great Math program for my daughter since she will be going into first grade this Fall. I am so impressed with all your knowledge of it all. A friend recommended Right Start, but I already knew that, that specific program was not going to work for my family. I was really drown to Math U See or Math for a Living Education orginally. But, after seeing this video and seeing how you explained each program SO well. I now feel very confident that Math for a Living Education will fit my family best. Thank you so much for doing these videos!
We love Masterbooks
Thanks! We’ve enjoyed Math U See, but I definitely have to keep tabs with the local school system to make sure she’s caught up in case we put her back into public school.
Thank you for the review! It was very thorough and really helped me and my husband on deciding which curriculum for our 1st grader. Good job!
THANK YOU!!! This is exactly what I needed and was looking for.
your welcome!
Thank you for this! We are looking at starting homeschooling and all the options are overwhelming. This helps!
Thank you for your clear, to the point, and positive presentation!
Thank you so much for this review! Absolutely fantastic, so informative.... definitely making me feel less nervous about embarking in this homeschooling journey. My biggest fear was teaching my 6th grader her math- but I am terrible with it...
I have a feeling your # subscribers are about to explode over the next 6-8 weeks!
Thank you so much for this peak inside and your thoughts. I have a struggling math student and have been going around and around with what to choose for him next year. I am still not sure ( lol), but you gave me some things to mull over. Great channel too!
You're amazing! Awesome review! New subscriber here, been homeschooling since August last year and couldn't figure out why my son doesn't like his Abeka math anymore. This helped me a lot!
THANK YOU for this amazing review video! I finally feel like I can make a decision. I would love to do Right Start for my 2nd grader but I know with three younger siblings, I just own't have the one on one time I would like to have with her - so I'll be buying the Math Lessons for a Living Education and I'm thrilled to find a Math curriculum that is more Charlotte Mason. Thank you!
Great reviews!! Thank you so much. We used Singapore Math for kindergarten but have since switched to Math Mammoth and love it.
Can you please explain why you think math mammoth is better than Singapore math? Please guide!
I binged all your podcasts today. 🙋♀️💁♀️
haha, that's awesome! Not sick of my voice yet? ;)
This was so informative! I'm about to start homeschooling my 3 kids for the first time, so this was a massive help! Thank you!
Best of luck to you! Best advice I have heard for starting out, remember children naturally learn just like they breathe and eat, it’s just a matter of figuring out what to put before them. When you find the right thing, they will devour it👍🏼
Also check out Pepper and Pine (on UA-cam) She has some beautiful inspirational projects on her channel😁
I’m doing that this year!
This was fantastic! Thank you for all your hard work! BTW Teaching Textbooks is really easy to cheat on, especially for older kids, or parents who are not watching closely. There’s a mom on UA-cam who gives a thorough review on it, and it’s informative and hilarious!
I would love to watch that, haha! Yes, it is super easy to cheat on, on the new 3.0 software I turned off second chances which seems to be helping my son but that is definitely a point to watch for. I think the families that use and love TT often get the most out of it when they do it alongside their children, use the book, and really go at er. The families like me that use it as a total hands off "go do your math" sometimes find that kids aren't mastering or are skipping stuff, etc. and it comes back to bite them ;) haha! I have found that with every math though. If I'm not on top of my grade 6, he skips, does stuff lazy, gets stuff wrong. I really have to supervise and hold all the kids accountable, guess theres no "get out of jail free" card ;) bahaha.
Thank you so much for this video! It was incredibly helpful! I appreciate how thorough and clear you were. :-)
You just moved from 6/10 to 8/10 on my ratings for being Canadian. I'm really enjoying your videos and I'm learning a lot.
thanks so much...not a home schooler wish I could BUT this was wonderful, looking for supplemental work for my students...looking forward to your language arts and science reviews
This was an awesome video! Thank you! This will be our first year homeschooling.
This is amazing! I don't know how you have time to do all of this! Thanks for the review. My daughter is 6 and quite gifted. We did Singapore last year, but a friend passed several years of RightStart on to us. I am having to skip a lot because she already knows a lot of it but it takes so much time - and I have an insane toddler. I am looking to possibly use Master Books or Teaching Textbooks next year. I definitely think if I get through the RS book B this year (we started in A and probably shouldn't have), she could def do 3rd grade math. But she loves the games so I may read through the game book and incorporate some of that. We have only done a few games. Because, toddler. I just need to be able to stop everything and focus on discipline for him when he is doing crazy dangerous things. Then I can bless another family with RS.
Thank you so much for this! A huge help as our family chooses to homeschool instead of the crazy plans our school district is implementing this year.
Kids can teach themselves using interactive tools but it's best with a guide and coach in the early years through middle school age.
I'm available to work through zoom sessions if you think your kids will benefit.
I appreciate you being so real. I'm a homeschool mom of who just moved and downsized half my home size and feeling like a fail because we'll life happened and we just go with it my kids and still young and I spend a lot of time teaching how to just put something back when they are done. And I get on pintrest and youtube and see these so organized rooms and wonder what I'm doing wrong.
And once a week for about an hour is clean and looking okay then we are back to school and missing all, ALL my pencils. So tomorrow I'll go out and make sure we have some for Monday lol
I love this review!! I wish all reviews were like yours. Thank you!
Thank you Amy! This one was time consuming but I loved what I learned about all of these programs and I really hope it's helpful to my viewers and their children.
This was incredible! Way to go!
I really enjoyed how you went through each book with details, this really helped me. I am née to homeschooling and have two who were held back in school in 2nd and 3rd grade. I am trying to get them back on track and if I can help them go a little further if possible but I have had so much trouble finding where to start. Thank you for the time you spent sharing this information with us.
Fantastic video! This format should be the prototype to more videos like this. Thank you!!!!
Great video! Thank you so much. I am so happy I found your videos. I really wish I had homeschooled my oldest who is now 20. I plan on homeschooling my youngest sons (13 and 3) next fall. I need all the help I can get. There is just so much information out there. It’s hard trying to figure out how to start.
Thank you for this incredibly thorough review! It was so informative and helpful!
Thank you so much for helping to confirm which direction I should take with my son's 2nd grade curriculum. Very helpful. God bless!
Rebecca, thank you SO much for taking the time to answer me in regards to MLFLE and RightStart. Although RightStart seems like a wonderful and solid program, the fact that it is SO much work makes me cross out this possibility. Thanks for making it clear that you'd only use it if the child super struggles with math or is really hands on. That was really clarifying to me and it helped me even more so with that decision to go with MLFLE. I think, by the way, that it is WONDERFUL the fact that you're taking the time (even though it's hard!!!) to do RightStart with your daughter knowing how much it benefits her. You're being such a blessing to her! Thank you again!!!
No problem! I know it is tough to figure out what is right, but definitely MLFLE is way less intense and involved and has the teaching aspect in a pretty simple way. Once your kids are about grade 3 or 4 and reading on their own, they can even start to do it independently ;)
This was amazing and exactly what I was needing! Thank you! Just subscribed!
Thank you for such a great overview! We used the JumpMath US edition for 2 years, which unfortunately aligns with common core. I got frustrated with the overly complicated strategies offered, even at the 1st grade level. We moved on to MFALE this year, and we are all loving math again :).
Common Core math drives me nuts, thanks for clarifying, looking for a NOT common core math for rising first grader.
One bit of advice. Pick a spine and stick with it. Skills are presented at different levels at different increments. If you hop around, your kids may miss concepts that are built and reviewed. Consistency is very helpful in training their brains. It's why we stuck with Abeka in grade school and Saxon in middle and high school. Steady and thorough.
Agreed! I know from experience with my first homeschooler. Now that I have two more younger kids in 1st and 2nd grade we're sticking with what's always worked. I tend to hear someone rave about a curriculum and I think oh that must be better than what I'm using, but what I'm using is working, so there's usually not a reason to change.
My kids have been in Abeka for Elementary and Abeka for middle school and I’m thinking about having them take Saxton for high school. What are your thoughts on that?
@@louiselysadulle6082 I am a math teacher (and also homeschooled for 18 years). Saxon is easy to use and does use a spiral method but you have to be careful that students have learned the concepts since Saxon never tests for mastery on a topic such as fractions, For example, my son totally missed how to divide fractions. Although he did the tests his grades were fine but I never noticed until weeks later that he had missed how to divide fractions - he never inverted and multiplied. If he had tested on fractions I would have seen it but since the test had many topics I did not catch it until I actually analyzed several weeks of tests. He missed that concept and I had to reteach it. I also used Saxon in the classroom and was very careful to test for mastery after my experience homeschooling.
Fabulous review! Thank you. Just what I needed.
Very helpful review. Thank you for showing various grades/levels. You are awesome!
WOW!!! I rarely comment on videos, but this is awesome for all of the reasons that have already been mentioned. What a blessing! Thank you!
What are your favorite homeschooling-related UA-cam channels?
A most excellent review. You're the first reviewer I've seen that actually showed a side-by-side comparison of multiple pages in each curriculum, which is very helpful. If possible, it would be good to see a comparison of pages the same levels (for example, seeing the beginning of level 1 for all the curriculums). Otherwise, a great review.
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this. I have asked around about a few of these and did not really get any information. I feel like I can finally narrow down the choices for my daughter!
This resource is amazing! THANK YOU!
Thank you for this Wonderful, get to the point, descriptive review. Wonderful!! I have been a Singapore lover for years with my older kids.. Now I am trying Abeka for my second grader.
Thank you !!!! The best informative video on Homeschool Math Curriculum!!!
Thank you again ❤️❤️❤️
Very impressive review. Just what I was looking for.
Some dads teach homeschool math too--wanted to make sure that was stated since this keeps mentioning this helps "mom" do this and that. Thanks.
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The majority are moms ....
most are moms, and this channel is a moms channel, just enjoy the material and stfu
MMABeijing geez, that was a bit much. I don’t think he meant any harm.
I did A Beka K through 9 and grades 4-9 completely independently. It was pretty tough but doable (for me). I also loved the layout. It is super clear and fun. Would totally recommend.
may I ask what you did for math in grades 9-12?
I love love love this video! This would have made my life so much easier a year ago when I was first starting to homeschool.... Not that you have all the resources for it, but could you please please pretty please make one for history and one for science? There are so many curriculums out there - seeing them all together would make it such an easier choice!
This was very informative and helpful thank you for the time and effort you put into this!!
This video was incredible. Thank you for your videos! ❤️
your welcome! Thank you for watching!
This video is so helpful...thorough and objective...Thank you!
Just discovered your channel...
I love all the curriculum you've chosen and wanted to add the good and the beautiful... it's brand new for the younger grades but it's helping my very kinesthetic learner:-)
bayamonrican I was also wondering about this program too. My daughter is going into the first grade and the placement test for math put her in the K level...... primer K for language arts..... do u think it’s advanced ?
@@sew_whatever I would say depends on she feels where she's at. I got the primer as a just in case, and my daughter flew through it. She was so proud of herself.. made it easier to motivate her to level K
Wow! Very in depth description! Thanks
This was VERY helpful!!! you can tell you've put a lot of work into this video, thanks!
This is an amazing review. You are phenomenal.
Thank you so much! This was just what I needed.
Thanks for your time. You are very kind. Very useful for beginners.
I already thought I new about mosts of these, but now I see that I was wrong. Your review was stellar and I now know what we'll likely pick for K.
Awesome! I'm so glad Giselle!
Giselle Medina .. Just curious which direction you've decided to go in as we are in the same boat currently, TIA!
Such a great video! I found this super helpful. Thank you!
This review was so helpful! Thank you!!
Great review! Thank you for sharing 😊
This was so helpful! Thank you. ❤️
Thank you for the reviews!!
Thank you!
I’ve been curious about some of these math programs
and you’ve enlightened me. I enjoyed this very much!
awesome! So glad!