Kfamily Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I've been thinking about adding a supplement to dd's math program (Singapore). I'm looking at MEP and CSMP. I'd love some feedback about either of these two. This would be for a rising first grader who is 1/2 through 1B. We school year round so I was thinking she will be in 2A by September or so. Any advice would be so appreciated. She enjoys math but I do have CWP for Singapore 2 so I may not need a supplement. Hmmm, just thinking about it...what do you think? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 (edited) We've been using both these with my very soon to be 5 year old in addition to Singapore. I wish I had a longer-rage vision to offer, as we are in level one of each. MEP strikes me as something like a twin of Singapore, but twins separated at birth. One sent to grow up in Hungary before going to University in the UK, and the other grew up in Singapore. So the "nurture" was different, and the cultural and style are different. But for all the differences, they are like minded. So using MEP (so far to me) seems like hitting the basic ideas and concepts from Singapore from another perspective. And the lesson plans from MEP are full of great teaching ideas. CSMP is very different. Very interesting things with sets (what they call "strings") and "arrows" and the puzzle-like "mini-computer". It's not a bit like MEP or Singapore. So I value one for being "complimentary" and the other for being totally different. I'm not sure how much this helps you, but... Bill Edited July 8, 2009 by Spy Car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted July 8, 2009 Author Share Posted July 8, 2009 (edited) This does help! Thank you! That's been part of the struggle...they are both appealing but I can't do both! I think I will have to buy some more ink (never enough ink around here!) and print out some of each. I can always wrap my head around something better if I have it on paper in front of me. Edited July 8, 2009 by Kfamily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 (edited) This does help! Thank you! That's been part of the struggle...they are both appealing but I can't do both! I think I will have to buy some more ink (never enough ink around here!) and print out some of each. I can always wrap my head around something better if I have it in paper in front of me. It might prove less costly to have a copy center print them out if you have an ink jet. Perhaps? Bill (who would personally pick MEP at this juncture if he was forced to choose) Edited July 8, 2009 by Spy Car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I like MEP better only because I printed the teacher's guide for it and it doesn't use calculators. I wish I'd printed the CSMP one. CSMP is more different from SM than MEP is, but I think MEP does offer some different ways of looking at things as compared with using SM & CWP, which present things the same way; CWP just has some harder word problems. At this point, though, my ds is getting to the point where I won't be able to continue doing SM, MUS, CWP and MEP because he's 9 and is going to need to learn things as yet mostly untouched, such as writing, health and some other things. I'm probably going to have to cut back to what I already own, rather than by the extra ream of paper and print cartridges to print out all of MEP. Too bad, but sometimes tough decisions have to be made. He has definitely benefited from the MEP we've been doing, and I'm thinking of making it our summer math next year rather than doing it along with all of the other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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