redquilthorse Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I found a used copy of AOPS prealgebra at a curriculum sale and picked it up on a whim. I am already planning to use Chalkdust prealgebra this year. Any suggestions on how I can work in some of AOPS for my mathy 6th grade son? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in SA Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 You might need to go the other way around, because AoPS has a very particular development that doesn't take to deviation all that well. You can certainly interweave them (and use Chalkdust for grading), but I'd let AoPS drive the sequence... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipitous journey Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Yuo could try pulling from AoPS on a topical basis -- for particular topics you want to reinforce or extend. That's how we've ended up using most of the AoPS PreA. Are you very comfortable with math? if so this would be fine, just look over the AoPS chapter you want to include and make sure the child has the required background (fractional exponents, whatever). If not it might be frustrating. I would NOT do this for the materials after PreA. These would -- I agree with Mike -- be hard to use out of order. But I think the PreA is a whole different thing and that might be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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