lighthouseacademy Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 DS 6.5 got ahold of Singapore 2B the other day and did over half the book in one day- hit all topics as he did do some skipping around. His accuracy was very high as well with an occasional mistake. I have been doing RS C with him, but have felt the whole time that it is WAY too slow for him. I have a hard time speeding it up so he can go as fast as he wants without sacrificing understanding. I think Singapore would be a nice compliment as I plan to teach the how to the Right Start way but then let him run. I see some people like Challenge word problems and intensive practice rather than the workbook. Why is that? What is the difference between the intensive practice and the workbook? What is the benefit of the challenge word problems? BTW I have Primary Challenge Math and ds wants to read it for a bedtime story. I need to be sure he has his facts down fast (addition is there, subtraction is almost there, and multiplication is up and coming and he has just begun to learn division) and I know that repetition gives the speed but how do I prevent the boredom (I suffered from boredom as a child in math and that led to me cheating to get the answers so I wouldn't have to do it!) I then suffered not knowing addition and subtraction facts as well as I should have but thankfully had multiplication and division down cold because I didn't cheat but did the drill... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 The Challenging Word Problems and Intensive Practice books have harder, more thought-provoking problems than the regular workbooks. For kids who need and thrive on a challenge in math, these books help provide it. The workbook has regular difficulty level problems in it. I like using all three books. One thing you could do is do the textbook and workbook first and then follow a book or so behind on the Intensive Practice and a half book behind on the Challenging Word Problems while continuing to do new material in the textbook/workbook. I hope that made sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 We just got around to adding Challenging Word Problems this spring, and I wish we'd been doing them all the time. They really add. I haven't tried the Intensive Practice books yet, so can't comment on them, but I'm thinking I may try them for ds (and possibly my 10 yo dd, but not sure as she's really, really into art & history and FINALLY likes science since we started RS4K). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chai Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 We did Singapore with Miquon for the first 3 years. I just added in Intensive Practice and Challenging Word Problems this fall. I like CWP because it adds onto what is already the best program for word problems, IMHO. My dd finds word problems and concepts to be easy, though, and she has gone through half of this book (one level behind) in two weeks. DD is not so crazy about Intensive Practice because it has more of those computational skills. We are doing a level behind on this as well for review. Since my dd is not thrilled with math, I am holding back on her levels instead of pushing too far too fast. Unless you want more review, I can't see the need to use both Intensive Practice and the workbook--I'd choose just one of them. I remember being bored in math until Algebra, so I understand what your ds is going through. Here is a fun math site for practicing those computational skills. DD loves it and I often direct her to do the games that cover her weak areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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