Tsuga Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 3B. 3A was too much review. I hope she can pick up without 3A and won't miss too much of the storyline. I think even 3B will have substantial review but my hope is that since she loves comics, cute animals, etc. we can do this instead of her homework review. Last night the homework review sheet was single digit addition (she did music theory instead). That is GREAT for the young person who is struggling with math and who once a week gets to have a review of the basics. Not cool for spending our homework time. Update: Last night was a really special night for us. While filling in the multiplication matrix, my daughter started using pattern-spotting and logical-thinking methods we'd been working on through the first few pages. She loved the comics and keeps begging to read more but I'm asking her to work through the concepts in order. Well she finally really started to get excited about the patterns. Like the symmetry of the 10x10 matrix. I have seen my kid do well at math, and I have seen her spot patterns but never get excited about the beauty of numbers before. I am so happy. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 my son enjoys BA. He is a curriculum hopper because he gets bored easily, but we're sticking with BA. He struggles with going systematically through problems, trying to rush straight to the answer. I work with him on BA and am trying to teach him the importance of "systematic" approach to math. He is doing 3B right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Good to know. My daughter has not really found math challenging since most of it in school has been systematic. I'm the one challenging her up to this point so I think she thinks I'm just making it hard. She doesn't have an easy time with explaining her reasoning, but to some extent I think that is due to the fact that she's a native speaker of arithmetic, you know? It's easier to parse your thinking when you had to think hard about something. Native speakers find it hard to explain the rules of their own language without reflecting on another language. I'm hoping BA will help her think about these problems in another way. I do have a question... in your signature it says Beast Academy 4... am I missing a kid in the signature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 3B. 3A was too much review. I hope she can pick up without 3A and won't miss too much of the storyline. I think even 3B will have substantial review but my hope is that since she loves comics, cute animals, etc. we can do this instead of her homework review. Last night the homework review sheet was single digit addition (she did music theory instead). That is GREAT for the young person who is struggling with math and who once a week gets to have a review of the basics. Not cool for spending our homework time. Update: Last night was a really special night for us. While filling in the multiplication matrix, my daughter started using pattern-spotting and logical-thinking methods we'd been working on through the first few pages. She loved the comics and keeps begging to read more but I'm asking her to work through the concepts in order. Well she finally really started to get excited about the patterns. Like the symmetry of the 10x10 matrix. I have seen my kid do well at math, and I have seen her spot patterns but never get excited about the beauty of numbers before. I am so happy. Are you still worried about the content being "too much review?" :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 :~) It is just what I'd hoped--really, truly conceptual. She had done the multiplication boxes before but the bigger ones are really challenging, like even fun for an adult to go through as a light Sudoku-esque exercise. That is very positive. It is right at her level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 I bought BA for my youngest last year, and she liked it, but she really wants me to work through it with her. I guess it is more fun to have someone to share it with. I have spent so much time with review and remediation for my eldest, I don't get to "help" my youngest much. Now that my eldest is pretty well caught up, I am thinking of going through BA with both girls together, for fun. I am not sure when I will find time for it though. :P Perhaps we can start during spring break and then get into it more consistently over the summer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 My DS likes to jump ahead to the starred problems. :) It's a tough balance, keeping him engaged in new material and pacing him through the material he's working on so that he has time to absorb and "sleep on" it, encouraging him to do the simpler practice problems but letting him sink his teeth into the tougher ones. But it's just so RIGHT for him. We need to get back to using it regularly, because he's getting frustrated at school again and I need BA to remind him that math is NOT ABOUT GETTING THE RIGHT ANSWERS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nart Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 3B. 3A was too much review. I hope she can pick up without 3A and won't miss too much of the storyline. I think even 3B will have substantial review but my hope is that since she loves comics, cute animals, etc. we can do this instead of her homework review. Last night the homework review sheet was single digit addition (she did music theory instead). That is GREAT for the young person who is struggling with math and who once a week gets to have a review of the basics. Not cool for spending our homework time. Update: Last night was a really special night for us. While filling in the multiplication matrix, my daughter started using pattern-spotting and logical-thinking methods we'd been working on through the first few pages. She loved the comics and keeps begging to read more but I'm asking her to work through the concepts in order. Well she finally really started to get excited about the patterns. Like the symmetry of the 10x10 matrix. I have seen my kid do well at math, and I have seen her spot patterns but never get excited about the beauty of numbers before. I am so happy. My son is also doing 3B. He continues to both love Beast Academy and get incredibly frustrated with some starred problems. It has really taught him to persevere and stick with one single problems for 10 minutes. If you have 3A and looked it over, then decided it was too much review, that makes sense. But if you just looked at the topics and thought it would be a review you might have missed out on some great chapters. Certain problems in 3A are incredibly difficult! The shapes problems had him (and me as well!) really thinking about how to look at a figure multiple ways. Skip Counting isn't just count by 10's or 8's. My son is finding the beginning of 3B to be really easy, probably because he has already memorized the times tables AND because he got used to the harder problems in 3A. The next chapter- Perfect Squares looks tricky though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 We have done a lot with a German book and problems I have printed off from the Internet, but you may be right. I will be getting 3A for the little one this summer, so as to further encourage the older one to move forward, so she can go through those by teaching her sister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kateingr Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 The beauty of numbers just keeps coming in Beast! So glad you and your daughter are enjoying it so much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoppeltGemoppelt Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Binip, what German book are you using? We are also debating getting BA for afterschooling (instead of MEP). Now that you posted your update, and seeing how much you like it, we may just do it starting this summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 I strongly recommend it. Great for math concepts. We were using Das Zahlenbuch by Klett. Very happy with it though not quite as conceptual as BA. It was hard because she had to do it in German and that's not my native language. But I love the color and illustrations. http://www.amazon.de/Das-Zahlenbuch-Arbeitsheft-Schuljahr-Neubearbeitung/dp/3122016222/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425077878&sr=1-11&keywords=mathematik+klett+2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoppeltGemoppelt Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Thanks Binip! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 Kein problem! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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