Has anyone used Horizons Math with MathUSee?

[Mommy7]

If so, how did you line it up? Primer w/ Horizons K? Alpha w/ Horizons 1? or go one behind with Horizons?

 

Thanks! :)

[Pine Ledge Academy]

I lined up the Horizons with their grade level, although some would go one year behind since it is a little more advanced than Saxon, but it worked out well for us....my son was doing Beta and Horizons 2, daughter doing gamma then delta and Horizons 3, etc. It is very different in the approach and content, and after a while we tired of 2 full math programs (Horizons started as a supplement), so we dropped MUS. I think my children had a good foundation with some of the MUS, but it spent very little time on anything else that wasn't the "basics" and that showed up in their testing. hth, tho it was more than you asked for.

[Tiramisu]

We just finished Horizons 1. We added in Math U See Beta mid-year. Dd has moved quickly through Horizons so I have found MUS a good supplement. Even though you could say Beta was a level ahead of Horizons 1, dd could really catch on to the MUS lessons with minimal instruction. I liked the mix but I don't know if we will continue once the math becomes more involved and will naturally take more time. I have used other things to supplement, Calvert was one, between the Horizons books just for a change and to add a more conceptual perspective.

 

I will also add that we don't use the MUS manipulatives or DVD's because dd finds manipulatives annoying and would rather just do the work. Since it's a supplement for us, that's okay with me. Others might say it defeats the purpose of MUS and they are probably right.:001_smile: