Video Text users....

[HSKLNG]

Have your children done more than one lesson at a time?

 

How do you manage this if you are using the quizzes?

 

I need to accelerate this a little (ok, a lot). My dd got stuck at the beginning of Module C.

 

Can you help?

 

Thanks in advance.

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[74Heaven]

when we needed to accelerate, we just added a lesson on Saturday OR found a way to add about 1/4th of a lesson every day to manage maybe 4 lessons a week instead of 3.

 

The main sked for us was usually close to 3 lessons a week -add in slow ''problem'' areas [Mod C was one of those] and we did the curric over 2 school years.

 

All of the lessons are so diverse in terms of difficulty, individual mastery and even numbers of problems to be worked. So, I always tried to plan out assignments with the workbook open, answer key open so that I could get a feel for how long ea assignment would take each child.

 

I love VT and am thinking about doing it over 3 years with my next child.

 

Lisa j, mom to 5 [2 have done VT; one switched after Mod D but I regret it greatly as the college placement tests are testing on Alg 2 concepts that the replacement programs Math Relief and Teaching Textbook did not cover...]

[rwalizer]

I can't see how we could have done 2 lessons in a day. It gets pretty complicated and ds needed to do all the problems after a point in the program to reinforce the lessons and by the end of that ds was burned out on math for the day. Anyway, it would have left little room in the day for other activities. I agree that if you really need to speed things up, try doing a couple of lessons on the weekend.

[HSKLNG]

...she is also doing Geometry and I am wondering....

 

Should I put aside Geometry and let her concentrate in VT as the only math?

 

We only have (if I should mention time) about two years and next year is already tored up with my hubby's retirement, paperwork, classes, house hunting, packing and move from overseas back to the states and go job hunting.

 

While this is happening, my plans are read, read, read, and read some more...taking along VT with her laptop....

 

What do you think? I have other books and computer programs to take along but I have to remember to leave some space for clothing (winter clothing) on our luggage.:D

[Musicmom]

In general, I wouldn't recommend doing 2 lessons a day. There needs to be some "soak" time for each lesson, or it gets confusing. Maybe once in awhile you'll find a lesson that is exceptionally short and easy/obvious for your child, and you might have them do another lesson that day, but you can't really tell in advance when this will be the case. Sometimes you need to spend more than one day on a lesson with a tricky concept.

 

Here's how I accelerated it when I needed to get ahead (or catch up from illness or spending extra time on a previous lesson):

 

My schedule for Videotext algebra was to do one "segment" (which was a lesson w/exercises, a quiz, or half of a test/cumulative review) each day. So for example, a week's work might look like this:

 

Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Quiz on 1 & 2, Lesson 3, Quiz on 3.

 

To speed this up and still allow for the lesson soak time, I would add the next lesson on quiz day (after the quiz--and only if the quiz went really well.) So my example week above would look like this when accelerated:

 

Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Quiz plus Lesson 3, Quiz plus Lesson 4, Lesson 5.

 

Also, sometimes I could increase the number of pages of a test or cumulative review that were done in a day (e.g. allot more math time and do the whole 8-page test in one day instead of two).

 

Hope this helps!