Why We Quit TGTB Math 1 + Switched to Math With Confidence
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Hey friends, in todays I'm sharing more details as to why we quit The Good and the Beautiful Math 1. I'm also sharing my first thoughts on Math With Confidence and the difference between the two curriculums.
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MWC does feel like there's so much to keep track of even if make a math kit. I'm homeschool mom to 3, oldest is 6th grade MWC. We're on our 6th yr with it. Whats made me stick with it is how well it works and that my kids love math over everything else becaaue of it.
I did read lessons ahead for a few years. I don't now becasue after 5yrs I'm so familiar with the format i know where all the info is and where to look. You also just get better at math when you've taught it for longer. I'm on my 3rd pass throguh 1st grade MWC.
One comment about your son seeming to forget everything. I would not worry about it. And consider on holding off on LA for a bit longer. I'm on my 3rd child going through this process and she's 6. My conclusion is kids can start early with math because it's concrete. They don't even need to understand the symbols for math (numbers) for a couple of years to be able to do math. We can represent numbers to 100 on a ten frame and do all sorts of math in our brain without using symbols for quite some time.
LA however requires much different skills. You have to be able to attach a sound to a symbol to read. You have to remember a sequence of events to draw a letter. You have to remember where to start and how to form it. These are skills which i think younger brains arent ready to remember. I think their brain is still developing the part of the mind that retains this sort of info. So from a mom who didnt push LA with her first 2 and both of them jumped to grade level reading in just a few months at age 8-9.....dont stress or push. I'm not saying don't try. But you may find it easier, as i did, if you just wait a bit longer. And instead of spending soooo much tims trying to gain retention, his brain will retain it easier when he's older. Spend a lot of time reading books together. And do art for writing readiness.
Enjoy! They grow fast.
I love MWC, but the only way I could use it was by highlighting the teacher script in yellow, and supplies needed at the top right, in pink. I did it at night, a little everyday until I did all lessons. It so much more smooth like this. Also, instead of cards, we use a free spinner app (spin the wheel) and save the games on it before hand, so that way, we’re not scrambling with cards or 1,000 pieces. Instead of an app, you can also use 10-sided dice from amazon, it’s about $8 for a pack. These tips have made teaching MWC a breeze!
The amount of number cards for MWC K is exhausting. I think I’m going to skip the cards when I can, and just write on a dry erase board. Especially for the addition and subtraction equations.
@@brittany.powell yes!!! That’s exactly what I did in level k, use the white board. 😊now for first grade, I use a spinner app for free (spin the wheel) or 10-sided dice. It’s a game changer!
We also switched from TGTB to MWC and loved it! ❤
We love MWC! We started homeschooling in second grade with our daughter. So we’ve used MWC 2 & 3 with her. She’s currently working her way through MWC 4. Earlier this year we started with Preschool Math at Home for my son, but he is now 3/4 of the way through MWC K. I already have MWC 1 waiting for him too. I find MWC very easy to use, and it gives me 100% confidence (no pun intended) that my kids are learning exactly what they need at the right time developmentally. In the earlier levels there definitely is a lot more manipulative pieces required for lessons, but there are ways to modify to cut down on that (thank goodness lol). We plan to use MWC through level 6 and then transition to Denison in grade 7.
Do you have a reading curriculum you love that matches the style of MWC?
@@hannahhensley8497 I use All About Reading. I love the explicit instructions and the consistency in the flow of the program.
@@hannahhensley8497 I use All About Reading. I love the explicit instructions and the consistency with the flow of each lesson.
Huge huge fan of MWC! Especially love the support in the parent fb group! We started in K last year, and my son and I are loving grade 1!! I find the teacher guide much easier to use the second year around. I'm finding the "memory work" to be suuuper beneficial for my first grader and he LOVES math (compared to reading 🙃)
I would love a side by side. I have mixed feelings about both. I hear the same thing about TGATB, not being enough. We are doing TGATB kindergarten now and it seems short almost like not enough. I think we are only on lesson 11 or 12. I also feel like it’s too easy for my son too. He is enjoying it so far. MWC seems affordable. We are doing TGATB since it’s free and we are on 1 income. So far we are liking the reading with TGATB.
MWC definitely digs a lot deeper than TGATB math. I haven’t found TGATB to be enough in language arts ether, my kids don’t need a picture study, they need to know grammar and spelling, so it just feels like a waste of time and money to get it only for geography and art when both of those are SO easy to implement in literature books or in other ways like a map page once a week with some fun UA-cam videos of the contents and oceans. I know you like TGATB but there is so much better out there
I am also a big fan of MWC, we tried leaving it one time because I was dreading prepping the lessons 😂 but I switched my organization around and we are back at it. I am also in the same boat with being in the middle of years. I started my son on kindergarten MWC when he turned 5 in February but now he is 6 and on unit 23 of 1st grade. So we are always a little ahead but it’s by mostly bad during the summer because in the fall he will continue 2nd grade math but he will have already done all the review units of it. 😂