I'm finding out that I need to teach my ds study habits. Not only do I need to teach the habits, I need to teach him the "how" of studying. Does anyone know of any resources (website, books, etc) that I can use to teach myself how to teach my son to study? Val

Thanks so much for responding. I do the same, work at the problems and when I can't get it, I ask my ds. Or....my dh will come home and figure it out for me. :-) I'm hsing three children and find it very difficult to find the time to watch every lesson. I wanted a math curric. that he could do himself. I'm at a bump in the home schooling road to begin with. I'm feeling overwhelmed and overworked. I'm having thoughts of sending my 14 y/o ds to school next year. I'm so confused and the difficulty I'm having helping him with algebra is making things worse. AHHHHHH (pulling my hair out). Val

Hello. I'm new to the board; however, I'm not new to home schooling. This is our 6th year educating our three children. Is VideoText Algebra confusing or is it just me? This is my first year using this for my 8th grader. We used Teaching Textbooks pre-algebra last year and liked it. I heard that VideoText had more solid content, so we switched after viewing samples. Fastforward to now.....I've never in my been more confused. I don't like VT's teaching style at all. I'm not a mathy person; my husband is and he gets it. My son and I BOTH get confused. I've heard the same thing from a few other home schoolers who have used VT. We are taking it slow because he's only in 8th grade, but I can't help him because I'm not understanding the lessons either. Any suggestions? Val