J'etudie Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Ds is highly verbal, language-oriented, linguistically inclined, whatever you'd like to call it. If it requires words, he loves it. Now I'm noticing that he seems to process math much better the more words there are. For example, today he read a word problem about someone having 68 baseball cards and giving 25 away so how many are left, and ds did this problem mentally in about 3 seconds. If this same problem were written 68-25= (or the vertical equivalent) he would hem and haw, look out the window, get distracted by a bird, start talking to me about the last thing he read about birds...you get the picture. Sometimes when he starts to drift I turn the calcuation into a sentence, "If I had 8 brownies and ate 5, how many are left?" Then he answers immediately. We've just added Singapore to MUS, and I can't believe the CWP are oop; I'm anxious for whatever replaces it. I also like getting books from the Living Math website. Later, I think the Times Tales will be perfect for him along with Life of Fred. Other ideas for now or ones I can tuck away for the future? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 What about something like this? http://www.mathlesson.com/ You also might look into Professor B (it's supposed to be pretty verbally oriented) http://www.profb.com or Right Start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'etudie Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 What about something like this? http://www.mathlesson.com/ You also might look into Professor B (it's supposed to be pretty verbally oriented) www.profb.com or Right Start. I'll check them out. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard good things about Ray's Arithmetic. If my understanding is correct, they come at math concepts from a story problem pov. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen500 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Murderous Math books The Number Devil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trixie Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Murderous Math booksThe Number Devil We love "The Number Devil!" And I think Life of Fred will be a good fit. My very verbal, "work it out mentally" ds has very much enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'etudie Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 I've made a list of things to investigate. Thanks for the ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyAberlin Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Maybe you could get him to come up with word problems for the equations. That would help him connect with the problem better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlovebaker Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 starts at about 5th grade math. It's the most innovative program I've ever seen ... not perfect for everyone but certainly entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmschooling Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 What about something like this? http://www.mathlesson.com/ :iagree: We have this one, called The Verbal Math Lesson. I just started my 8yo in Vol. 1 and will just progress at her pace. Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat in MI Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I was also going to suggest Ray's Arithmetic. Blessings, Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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