Place value? Maybe some of the fourth/fifth grade concepts? I have stuff for younger kids (Especially orders of operations), but less for as they get older.

Haha! Actually, I think that is one area where I am good! I love the fun stuff, and have lots of games, “fun” workbooks, Living Math books, etc., all Bookmarked. But please pass along anything you feel is exceptionally good! Thanks!!

Thanks! I’ve been reading samples and reviews and going a little nuts over it (clearly). I am currently thinking maybe math mammoth for my older child and maybe right start (or math mammoth?) for my younger. I’m going to look at TGTB when they come out with their samples of their new program and see how it compares. But I think math mammoth might be the right choice as it balances shorter lessons, more independence, and rigor...just missing the fun piece. Haha.

Thank you! In an ideal world, I’d homeschool until high school age, and we’d like them to then be enter advanced math tracks. My husband and I both attended the same large, very good public high school. He was on the highest advanced math track, so he did honors algebra II as a 9th grader, pre-calc as a sophomore, calculus BC as a junior, and an advanced problem solving class as a senior (with like 6 kids in the class total). He would have been well prepared to do any math field. My husband took honors calculus in college and said it was sooo much easier than high school calc. My sister (who went into a medical field), and my brother, who went on to be an engineer, breezed through their college math classes, too. I was on the regular honors math track and ended up demoting myself as a sophomore (after struggling through geometry) to do the regular math track, which was super easy (and really boosted my confidence, lol). However, I do NOT feel that I would have been able to do any sort of STEM field in college. I was NOT well prepared for higher level math like calculus. Fortunately, I got dual enrollment from our community college for math, and I entered a liberal arts major, and so I never had to take any math in college. It would have been such a struggle for me if I had. This is a very long-winded way of explaining that I really want my kids to do well in math and be well-prepared to test into an advanced track in high school. I was just wondering if TGTB would do the trick. And it might, because I don’t feel like my math instruction in elementary school was particularly great—nothing very challenging, probably very basic regular level math—and I still tested into the honors track in junior high. (Although you can see that I then struggled and took myself off of it. However, my sister and brother, who had the same elementary math as me, both excelled in junior high and high school math, so I’m sure it’s just a difference of being naturally mathy or not. Probably too early to know for sure for my kindy kid, but I can see that my 3rd grader has the natural inclination, so I think as long as he has a good, solid program in elementary, he’d do fine.) Sorry for the novel! RIght now I am leaning towards Math Mammoth for oldest and Right Start or TGTB for younger son, but still feeling up in the air! REALLY appreciate everyone’s input. You can see that I am probably way over-thinking things, and that I was maybe a bit of a high-strung student myself, who has now become a high-strung parent! 😉 Thanks again!

I’m going to try it—maybe even starting now! Thanks! My poor husband has so many things on his plate that I save for our weekends, but he likes math and would probably actually enjoy this task. (Unless our son is being a pain, that is! 😉

Thanks so much! My friend who uses TGTB is pretty rigorous and very conscientious, and I feel like she wouldn’t use the math if she felt like it was weak. She raves about it, which is what made me consider it in the first place. I hate to be all concerned about my kids being “ahead”, but if your kids had to transfer to public school, so you feel like they’d be more advanced than their grade level? I just want them to be very well prepared for their own sakes. I know they have gaps now. Sigh! thanks, I know nothing about mcruffy! I think Kate snow’s program would be great, but she only has kindy out now. I’ve been looking over math mammoth this evening and it looks promising. It is definitely a little less polished and visually appealing (and yes, as shallow as it is, I like a little polish and appeal to our materials!), but I won’t let that sway me. 😉 we love Living Math books, but I haven’t heard of the mathematicians are people too books! Thanks for the recommendation!

Yes, he could. That’s not a bad thought. The kids would rebel unless I made a “deal” with them, like no math on Friday but do 30 min with dad in Saturday. But I think they’d be up for it in that case. I think I might do something like that with my fourth grader for sure!

I was just thinking I spent a lot of time in the iPad with a new baby while I’m nursing, so I was thinking I could capitalize on that time! 😉 But thanks, Math mammoth sounds like a solid program all around!

Thanks for your vote of confidence! 😊

Anything free online that I could work through?

Yaaaay! I loved seeing a comparison of all three programs. Thanks a ton!! Although now I feel like throwing TGTB back into the mix! Lol.

Wow! Thanks for writing all that out...soooo helpful!! Sounds like a good possibility, too! So much to think about. And the fun resources definitely sound like things my kids would enjoy. Thanks again!

Thank you so much!! That was super helpful to see if broken down and laid out like that. I knew that I was asking for too much (“I want my kids to be math geniuses, but I don’t want any of us to have to do any work. 😝), but I’m glad to see some good options by priority. And me going through khan academy is a great idea!! I think I will do that!

Well, that makes me feel better about being totally lost! 😝

Right, that makes sense!

No...I didn’t have that. I just had the textbook and workbook. It was first grade, so obviously I knew how to do it the old-school way, but I didn’t know how to teach it the “Singapore way”. I didn’t even realize there was a home instructor’s guide. Thanks—might be worth a re-look after all! 😉

Thanks! It might be the right solution after all. Or else I better gear up for some math lessons for myself this summer! 😉

Ooh, interesting! At first glance, I LOVE the look of that. I wonder if it would be rigorous enough?? I’d need to investigate further. And it looks like my oldest would be at the oldest end of their highest level offered (ages 8-10, and he’ll be 10 next year), so that might not be ideal for him. But I will definitely look into that more, because it would be so much fun for us.

Yes...you are right. Sadly. Haha. After all this agonizing, I’m beginning to think I should just outsource math to my much more mathematically inclined husband. (He works a lot and is only home in the evenings, which are already super busy and stressful, and my son is *done* with work by then, so I feel like we’d be setting ourselves up for failure with that schedule. But otherwise, that would be my solution! 😉

Yes, I do agree in theory! I was just hoping for something where they could do most of the assignment independently (but I fully expect to do the lesson and initial instruction for all new concepts.)

Yes, they LOVE all those math books. Sir Cumference was a huge hit. They loved Life of Fred, too. If we could just do fun living math, they’d be all in! Haha. And so would I! Love, love, love books and readalouds. Yes, we do like outdoors, too! That’s a good idea. I was initially thinking of MLFLE with supplements (Because i recognized it was too light to stand on its own), but now I feel like MLFLE is a no-go altogether, so maybe something else with supplement, like you said, is the way to go. I’ll check out both CLE and BJU and see what I think. Appreciate it.

Hmm!! Okay—thanks. I know absolutely nothing about that curriculum. I’ll check it out, too! Thanks!!

I started my oldest with SIngapore (because he had done that at his private school in first grade), and he was a disaster about doing his work. Plus, I didn’t get how to teach the common core methods...I had to keep looking things up on how to teach it, and it was just kind of a mess. So I tried Beast Aademy—I honestly thought he’d love it, because of the “novelty” factor—and he DID love the comic-book textbook, but he was IMPOSSIBLE with the actual work. He seriously cried every single day, and kept saying how much he hated math, and I felt like I was watching him go from confident to unconfident right before my eyes.

Okay! Great. I added BJU to my “research this” list. Haha. And I totally agree with you...I know it’s my own “I don’t want to deal with this!” mentality largely driving my decision. They are SO fun to work with when they are in good moods and enjoying their work, and SO miserable to work with when they are not. I guess I should say that I DO want them to be challenged, but I also really want them to enjoy it. I guess that is probably a pipe dream! 😉

Haha that’s what it looked like when I went through the samples! I’d be fine through fourth grade, but when I looked at the fifth grade one, I was like, hmmm...I think I need someone to explain to me how to do that...lol. Thank you!Very helpful!