Murrayshire Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 We did the switch with my rising 4th grader after we finished Saxon 5/4. She placed in Math Mammoth 4......she also loves the looks of Teaching Textbooks.....she placed in TT Math 6. So I was going to have her try to work through all of MM4 and part of MM5 throughout the year for 5th grade. How do I squeeze TT6 in there?? TT has 116 lessons....we school year round somewhat beginning on Aug. 5 and ending our school year end of June....giving July time off & get ready for next school year the following Aug. I think I'm going to do 9 weeks on, 1 week off, and holidays/free days here and there. I need help figuring out how many days in the week she should do MM and how many for TT. I think it would be too much to do both in a day. We will do math M-F....She has been reading LOF this summer, too......she likes it okay but not as much as her db. Any-who, can anyone advise me on how to plan both TT & MM & possibly LOF?? Thanks in advance! J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 Does anyone have some suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotherOfBoys Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I can't help you because I've never used tt but I do have a question that maybe others are wondering too. Why switch from saxon to mm4 when mm only goes till 6? And your doing 4 and 5A in one year so that only leaves 5B and 6 for next year before you have to jump to something else. I just switched from saxon to mm (and LoF) but in an earlier grade. I'm just curious because I plan to go back to saxon later. Side note, I thought I read on here that some kids can do 2 lessons of tt in a day so maybe one day a week but 2 lessons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strange_girl Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Honestly, that sounds like too much math. :) Teaching Textbooks and Math Mammoth are both complete curriculums. Maybe just do one and add in LoF when you can? I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but I think your daughter might get really burnt out with math if you try to do everything. To do them together, you'd probably have to take 2 years for one grade level. So, do MM two days a week, TT two days a week, and LoF one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennay Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Honestly, that sounds like too much math. :) Teaching Textbooks and Math Mammoth are both complete curriculums. Maybe just do one and add in LoF when you can? I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but I think your daughter might get really burnt out with math if you try to do everything. To do them together, you'd probably have to take 2 years for one grade level. So, do MM two days a week, TT two days a week, and LoF one day. I agree that both MM and TT are too much - My dd in 1st grade is doing MM1B/2A and LOF. My plan is to keep her in MM until she is ready for TT3. My ds in 5th grade is doing TT Pre-Algebra and LOF Physics and PreA books My ds in 4th grade is doing TT5 and the Intermediate LOF books. It is a nice combination and they can work mostly independently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess4879 Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 We are planning to use TT4 this year and we are supplementing with MM4. Our plan is to use TT daily and then add in some MM word problems and a chapter here and there to expose her to different questions and such. I have heard of a lot of people only using TT 4 days per week and then using MM or LoF on the 5th day. You wouldn't complete MM that way, but you could accomplish a good chunk, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 Jess: Maybe that is the way to go.....TT 6 then on Friday we use LOF with MM for extra practice. I like MM's content better than TT....we'll have to play around with it I guess and see what fits better. Thanks to you all for chiming in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I've never used teaching textbooks, but have used MM as a supplement. What was easiest was to just buy the pieces for the area where DS needed more work. This year, we're contemplating combing MM4 (just because it's worked so well for us) with Math in Focus (Singapore type approach). While the order/scope/sequence aren't exactly the same... it's pretty easy to look at the topics in MiF and then line them up (for the most part) with Math Mammoth. When doing MM, we often do every other problem, unless it's an area where there seems to be trouble. I also like to break it up....so do one math program in the morning...and then the other in the afternoon/evening. On a side note, the big MM sale should be starting on August 1st at HSBC. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmrich Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 My dd does 3 TT lessons a week and a complete math curriculum with me (Singapore or Sadleir Oxford) TT is great for review and independence. She can finish one TT in 25 minutes. She also works on it in the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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