Maybe direct the student to do a short puzzle prior to the actual lesson or math exercise. KenKen for example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KenKen

I am sure good deals can be had on Amazon or EBay, as I am pretty sure it is one of the Larson/Hostetler/Edward books which has many editions available used. I will be passing on this course mainly because I already have the Math Without Borders/ Foerster set. And I just signed up for a subscription to Educator.com (1/2 off cyber promo), don't know if it's any good yet, but I have been interested in human pathogen type stuff which their 'microbio' course lines up to help with my ignorance on that But if time were available I would add that course to our Great courses Library.

Educator.com is 50% off. Found ad linked from their Facebook page. I am trying it out as a source for background knowledge and tutoring for the topics they offer. Target audience HS/adult other than that not enough experience for informed opinion.

One way I might go is get the GC PreCalc, than acquire used Precalc text Edwards coauthored unsure of specific edition, but the course would show it in the 'recommended reading'. This would be different than the course guide..

Been looking at that one too based off user reviews + his used Precalc text availability. But the Chalk dust person has a subscriber service that may be more bang for the instruction $$ and it uses same Precalc text (assuming just digitized version of chalk dust courses) http://coolmathguy.com/ I already have Foersters Precalc / Math without borders, so as much as I would like to get the above materials to check out, household comptroller is unlikely to approve the purchase.

Around here the trend is away from physical books which makes sating my curiosity about other math books hard. My Snooping opportunities lie mostly online but it helps to have a title for starting point. Thanks though.

Hi, can you post the name of the 5th grade text used in your post? Thanks

Buyer beware, but it does look like higher levels of the Singapore math texts are available for sale at this site http://www.sgbox.com/singaporemath.html I think your student having completed the 8b level is prepared to go which ever way they want with HS level math. Whether that's to continue the blended Alg/geo approach or go retro and study separates. http://mathwithoutborders.com/ It is worthwhile to spend time on odd ball classes like Counting & Probability concurrent with traditional math courses to give a taste of the possible.

So it is a measuring device to ensure schools are providing a timely education for students with a component of the benchmarks being a judgment of the students understanding of the why behind the math? Question: If a student were asked "explain why 6984 is a multiple of 18" would an answer of 6984/18 = 388 be good?

Put 'multiples' in your web search with 'skip counting' you will find lots of good ideas. I discounted 'skip counting' once upon a time...I was wrong it's worth doing.

Well yes that seems logical, but I went to the CC web site looking for a plain statement about its intent to better wrap my brain around the debate going on here. So if we assume the CC is meant to improve math education then we can ask how this is a result of Common Core.

Is Common Core making a claim that it'a adoption by Schools will improve something about Math for the learner? And if so can someone post links to the research behind the claimed benefits. Thank you.

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Home2teach class (paragraph, the instructor is cheerful) is working well for DD, I see her level of engagement and feel time $ well spent.