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Our son is starting third grade this fall and we use Singapore to supplement his public school math program (Go Math in Florida). I usually purchase the standard edition as well as the Challenging Word Problems book this year.

 

I am trying to decide what is most appropriate for me to get this time around......stick with standards or move to common core (what am I giving up?). Should I do the Intensive Practice book instead of CWP or the workbook?

 

I am also going to be purchasing Beast Academy 3A. He loves to read and is excited by the format and looking forward to trying it out. Since he is in school full time, I am trying to figure out what I should get without it being overkill. He takes violin lessons, plays soccer, and may try to get on the junior robotics team this year. I'm told that our new teacher really loves projects.....so I'm guessing he will be pretty busy this year. If you ask him he will tell you that he doesn't like math......although he does well in it. He just doesn't like spending lots of time on it. He's creative and has really strong visual spatial abilities. What he really LOVES is science.

 

Please help me figure out the right supplement mix. Thanks in advance!

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Don't count on Marshall Cavendish meeting their stated publication date for the new CCSS edition of Primary Math. With the revised editions of the secondary course, the publication dates got pushed back several times. 8A was supposed to be published in April of '13 but didn't actually come out until October. I'd be totally shocked if they actually got the books available by the end of August.

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Unless the CC edition is radically changed, it really doesn't matter. We used the Shing Lee New Primary Maths (one of the textbooks currently in use in Singapore) and I was able to swap in the MC US and Standards parts if I needed them (we used the NPM text/workbooks, because my DD liked them better, but the US IP and CWP, and there might have been one topic slightly different per book, if that (measurement and currency conversions were covered much more in the NPM, while more US-centric in the IP, for example). I also occasionally used the HIG from standards to look things up, and there was usually an added topic in them (more geometry was one thing I noticed), but it was maybe a page or two difference. I suspect the common core will be similar-a few small changes here and there and moving things around but that the core of the books will remain the same.

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