Math-U-See Blog

I got this in an email a few days ago, enjoy.

My daughter just created this Math-U-See horse….thought I would share it with you!

I think she was just horsing around submit your “Block Art” to ethan@mathusee.com

We now have an even ratio of unwed boys to wedded boys :-) 

My older brother Isaac got married this past weekend and it was an exciting event for the whole family.

 

(c)2008, Matt Newby

And for a fun picture, here is Steve and Isaac sword fighting prior to the ceremony :-)  

“The family that sword fights together, stays together”  :-)

 

So congrats to my older brother and his lovely wife Arica! 

It must be the time of year when everyone, in order to escape the winter doldrums, blogs about their favorite homeschool curriculum

So I’m starting a new feature called the “Blogosphere Roundup” in which I post mentions of Math-U-See that I’ve read on other blogs. 

 

Lady Why of  Where the Kudzu Grows blogs, 

I tend to get bored very quickly with the repetitive twenty-five problems a day (especially when only three or four of those are covering a new concept… the rest continual review… ugh!) There are a few things I have learned that make math more meaningful and really make the concepts ’stick’. My favorite math program is Math-U-See! It is far and away the front runner in its methods of teaching math concepts. Math-U-Seeis very ‘Charlotte Mason friendly’ in the sense that the learning is meaningful and real. It uses manipulatives for every concept at every level. I never fully understood algebraic equations until I saw them built with manipulatives! It is amazing! In traditional math books you learn the steps to get to the right answer but you never learn why it is the right answer. Math-U-See teaches you why the answer is what it is. We love it!

 Read the full post here.

 

Ruby at Freehold2 wrote an excellent review of the Math-U-See program

This is an extraordinarily popular program among homeschoolers. It uses videos to teach, and so it is a boon to parents who feel unsure of their own abilities to teach math. The web site is really well laid out and informative. At a glance (or a few quick clicks) you can figure out placement, manipulatives required, scope and sequence, etc. for any given level. 

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Math-U-See is well thought out & provides a level of support that you won’t find in other programs. Unlike some others, it will carry you from pre-school right up to college level. It is creative, but its emphasis is definitely on teaching mastery. It is suitable for all types of learners due to its multi-sensory approach, and offers opportunities for both enrichment and remediation or review. It definitely deserves a look!

Read full post here.

Jenny at Home is where you start from wrote,

 We are currently using Math U See, and we are pleased with it…and yet I was a little worried the girls would forget facts learned in previous years.

 Read full post here 

 [note] if you want more drill and/or worksheets we have them for available for FREE! Both a worksheet generator and a drill page.

 

Dovey at Dovey’s Deliberations has a great post about using Math-U-See with her son.

 Math-U-See uses manipulatives to teach the concepts. The manipulatives are colored rods for each number 1-10 and they have blocks for the hundreds. The rods can also be used as building blocks (Legos idea) and my children have enjoyed that aspect as well! As with any curriculum, you can modify exactly how you use it. I found that the manipulatives greatly added to understanding what was being taught. In fact, today, as I was making out some subtraction flashcards, I asked him what 9-1 was. He hesitated and then said 8. Then he said, “I remembered how I built it, Mommy.”

Read full post here

 

Homegrown at Homegrown Homeschool writes that Math-U-See gets here stamp of approval…. AGAIN

 Once again I am super pleased with Math U See! I have been struggling trying to figure out which book Alex should use next. I started him lower than his grade level when we first started using Math U See, because I wanted him to get a strong foundation. He flew through the first book Alpha and is now ready to move on. When I looked at the scope of Beta online he already knew 99% of it. He had already learned these concepts before we started Math U See, but after seeing how MUS works in Alpha, everything else that he had learned finally “clicked”.   

 Read full post here

As Cozy as Spring Wrote

We have many counting games and he practices counting. I recently began working with him using the Math-U-See blocks as he might as well get used to them early on. 

Read full post here. 

That’s it for the roundup, have a great weekend