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  1. I'm teaching piano to my DS 7 piano with a piano method: Piano Adventures by Faber, I think it's great, and there're lesson book, technique book and theory book. I think that for 2 siblings it's better to have different books, I think Piano Adventures for your DS 9 and Hal Leonard piano method for DS 6 is a good choise, because the two methods are similar but the Hal Leonard has a slower pace.
  2. I’m using PM standard and MPAH(only the enrichment book). Me too I live in Europe. I think they both are great curricula, but the syllabus is slightly different. I think MPAH is better, for example MPAH introduces all the times tables (1-10) and later long multiplication and long division, while PM introduces 1-5 and 10 times tables, later long multiplication and long division, and after all the 6-9 times tables. In PM the words problems are put together with other types of exercises, while in MPAH there are chapters expressly dedicated to words problems AFTER a topic is well mastered through other types of exercises. I'm thinking about leaving PM and beginning to use PMAH after finishing 3A and 3B levels, that I already bought.
  3. My son, 7 years old, too: he writes '3' backward, he reads the short words backward, he reads 'b' for 'd' or 'p' or 'q' and the opposite, but I don't know what to do. If he doesn't improve by the next spring, I think I'll look into an evaluation for dyslexia.
  4. I think the SM textbook has so many problems that the workbook becames a little useless. We regularly use textbook, MPAH enrichment book and something from IP, CWP, we have also the workbook and we use it only for those topics my DS doesn't grasps immediatly, or if there's a procedure he has to learn by memory.
  5. ditto for my son, who is a visual learner with a language delay. He loves Beast Academy, because it is very visual, and we 'll continue using it as a supplement, but we use SM as main core because it's less verbose and the new terminology is introduced more slowly.
  6. Math In Focus is the US version of My Pals Are Here? I don't use MIF, I use Singapore Primary Mathematics with the enrichment book of My Pals Are Here, for enrichment and for review, if there's the enrichment book also in MIF you can use it, it's good.
  7. Hi! I have the HIG, but I use it only for a few topics, it gave me some idea for the concrete passage, but it's not necessary. Hands on stuff: we use lego, it's very helpful for understanding the mechanisms of mental calculation.
  8. Thank you for all this informations, I just ordered Beast Academy, but it is too early for my son who is still finishing SM 2B, I'll wait, but I'm so curious!
  9. This will be my first year of after-schooling. We used Singapore primary math for the vacancies and now my ds is starting second grade. He is in SM 2B and we have a time block of 30 minutes 3 days a week, plus 30 minutes of piano practice everyday.
  10. My DS7 too is in SM 2B and prefers to do it all mentally. I think that it is because he is a visual learner, and so he can visualize mental math well, and he doesn't like the writing procedures. Sometimes I write and he dictates me his mental process.
  11. :iagree: . It's important to learn strategies, not memorizing. I 've read a book by Dehaene who explains that asian kids are good in arithmetic because they use a lot of strategies and less memorized facts than occidentals kids.
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