Math Curricula Advice - review program for Singapore student?

[Bambam]

We have used Singapore since the beginning for my oldest dd. We stopped and tried a couple of other programs, but I prefer Singapore. I had her use Key to Fractions when she was having trouble understanding Fractions, but other than that, we have been slowly but surely going through the Singapore series. However, she does have trouble remembering exactly how you do past types of math problems (multiple digit mult, finding LCD, etc) but if I simply start to ask a question leading her, she says "Oh, I remember now," and gets to work. I would like to find a program that we can use daily to give her more practice of past concepts so we won't have these episodes! I have printed various pages off the internet, made my own, etc, but I want something already put together that I can just assign a page or two daily.

 

We used Math Minutes last year, which was pretty successful, but very simplistic. I'll looking for something better, not so simplistic, not extremely challenging, but not 'baby food' either. I thought perhaps another program- maybe the past grade level workbook? Any ideas?

 

TIA

[Snickerdoodle]

What about these Kumon books?

 

http://www.kumonbooks.com/catalog/catalog_workbooks-math.aspx

[way2cross]

I just posted about Math Mammoth for a math program focusing on the area you need to concentrate on. I got the downloads for measuring, metrics, and geometry since I thought we needed more time on those subjects.

http://www.mathmammoth.com/blue-series.php

[KAR120C]

We had an occasional "oh now I remember" and then it was pretty well cemented. Also, there were sections at the end of each CWP book that had mixed problems, which gave him even a little more review after going through the topics one at a time.

 

Hope this helps!

[Julie in MN]

I would like to find a program that we can use daily to give her more practice of past concepts so we won't have these episodes!

 

Just so you know, Singapore 6 is probably 75% review. At least that's how it felt to us.

Julie

[AngieW in Texas]

I've been using Daily Math Practice workbooks from Evan-Moor. You can see the entire workbook online at http://www.evanmoor.com . It has some problems that Singapore doesn't teach (like coordinate graphing, probability, etc), but I just teach that on the spot and we move on.

 

The tutor that I used to work with recommends Math4Today workbooks, but my dd couldn't handle the visual layout of that program.

 

You can find both of these programs at Rainbow Resource and often at your local bookstore as well.

 

I match the Daily Math Practice workbook number to the level of Singapore we're using. My dd started Daily Math Practice grade 5 just two weeks after she started Singapore 5A.

[FlockOfSillies]

Evan-Moor has some Daily Math Practice books. You can preview the whole book at evan-moor.com.

[Ray]

We're sort've doing the CWP thing Kar1200 suggested.

:iagree:

We still have our memory hiccups, but method or math mechanics is not our main objective for doing them.

 

interesting read on word problems http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/articles/swedish/ULFENG.PDF

 

 

 

Ray

[Matryoshka]

I used Math Detective and Math Mosaics. The last two in that series are Fraction Finder and Decimal Destinations, which have mixed fraction and decimal practice. And LOF Fractions and Decimals/Percents.