Socks is hilarious. I wonder if it is available online free somewhere?

Oh, I forgot to say that because we were fast tracking through those first few books, I just copied the lessons I wanted her to do. It saved me from having to buy another student text when she wasn't going to do most of it. But, 3monkeys has a great idea if you do not need to buy the student texts at all. :)

I think this is a smart and economical way to do it. I knew I would be using MUS with future dc, so I went ahead and bought Alpha all the way through Epsilon (not all at one time though). I just fast tracked her through Alpha and Beta, and slowed down some in Gamma. She was about 10-11yo when we did this. I think it is important for them to see how Steve does things right from the beginning. It almost always makes more sense than what we were taught growing up. I had so many "aha" moments, and I was good at math in school! The shortcuts and tricks he uses help so much. Some of them I figured out on my own, but only through looking at a lot of right answers and just kind of figuring out how it worked. I think you an continue to work on math facts on the side. Not what Steve recommends but I think it can get discouraging to hold a child back for too long because of math facts. Just MHO :)

Ok, I fixed the quote. Ditto to both. I could not teach them everything I want them to learn on my own. Mainly because my own education was sorely lacking.

Ditto

So, what are MUS and TT?

My 14yo is using it as is. She is doing Pre-Alg 2.0 so she can catch up on all the stuff we didn't get to in MUS because we were behind in that. She just does one lesson a day. She has sometimes watched a MUS video to understand or review a concept that doesn't make sense to her in TT.

Oh, and you can usually listen to books through your library website.

I ditto Librivox, though I don't think you can buy any. You can listen for free, even better! :)

Sagira, I PMed you :)