If I supplement math with miquon and LOF, how do I still finish our real math?

[staceyobu]

So, in an effort to make math more exciting for my oldest, I am going to try adding in some LOF and Miquon. However, if we skip days in Math Mammoth, we aren't going to finish level 2 at the end of the year. So, should we add the "fun math" on top of regular math? Try to skip some problems in math mammoth? Or just not worry about finishing in time to start level 3 at the beginning of 3rd grade? We only do school 4 days a week due to a coop...

[wapiti]

- add the fun math on top of the regular math

 

- I would look toward judiciously skipping lessons, parts of lessons, or whole series of lessons in MM on topics that you covered in Miquon.

 

- Consider doing math as homework on coop days.

 

- I would plan on math two to three days per week over the summer. (I'm a huge fan of summer math for everyone ;). My kids, who currently all attend school, are not big fans.) The summer should allow you to wrap up any remaining lessons in your MM level before the next school year starts.

Edited November 1, 2012 by wapiti

[LMD]

Try to squeeze 4 days worth of work into 3 days and have 1 day a week as a fun math day?

[thebacabunch]

We do Singapore and LOF every day. My kids do LOF independantly and we do Singapore together.

[blakereese]

Yes, you can add it on top of your regular math. We use MM as our "spine" and then supplement with LOF and BA. We use MM almost every day, occasionally take a day off here and there, and supplement probably 3-4 days a week. I don't have a specific schedule with it, we just add it in as we have the time or desire. My son would do LoF and BA all day if he could. ;) It is our cuddly couch time in the evenings and it doesn't really seem like it is part of our school day, iykwim. Fred would also be a good bedtime story kind of book.

 

Miquon is also easy to fit in, and you can match up what you are working on in MM with Miquon lessons. The amount of time you spend on it is really up to you and what you need to work on with your child.

 

We skip a lot of problems in MM or sometimes topics if they have already been covered with the other things we are doing. I am also a fan of doing math in the summer, so I don't worry about finishing in May or June. I feel like I would need to do a ton of review in the fall if we didn't keep up with things over the break, so we do a more laid back but still regular math schedule in the summer.

 

Really, at that level, it should be easy to add in the "fun math" and not add tons of time to your day. After a bit you will find a good balance with it. You may find that you won't need to do as much of the regular math after adding in Miquon and LoF.

 

HTH!

[boscopup]

I haven't used Miquon (though I use C-rods with Singapore), but I do LoF daily with my K'er while still doing Singapore every day. The elementary LoF books are easy to do the sane day as regular math. You cuddle on the couch and read together. My oldest does LoF Fractions the same day as his Singapore also, but not every day. At that level, LoF is harder and requires pencil and paper calculations.

 

We don't do Singapore and LoF both in one sitting. Usually it's Singapore in the morning and LoF a few hours later.

[J9Mommy]

We do a sheet of Miquon as a warm up, and then follow with our regular Singapore work.

[Violet Crown]

We do Singapore and Miquon daily (generally with Singapore acting as a supplement to Miquon). If we hit a stretch of either that she already learned well from the other curriculum, I generally pick the last problem of the page/set, ask her to solve it and to explain how she solved it, and then move on. Exceptions are if she needs more practice anyway, or if she wants to show off that she can do the problems easily - then we do the redundant lesson-work.

 

Supplementing with another curriculum shouldn't increase the workload - it should provide extra practice (which doesn't really increase the lesson time because, if you need more practice, then you need it), or an alternative way of approaching a concept.

Edited November 1, 2012 by Sharon in Austin

[Chrysalis Academy]

Last year we did MM4 and the whole LOF Elementary series concurrently. The way we did this was 2 pages of MM each day - at this pace you can get through it in one school year - and then ~3 chapters of LOF. We did math for an hour. As others have said, LOF is cuddly & fun, not hard, so it wasn't difficult to do the two together at all. We did this M-Th. On Fridays she did TT on her own while I worked.

 

This year we're doing MM - 1 lesson per day - and LOF Fractions & Decimals, in their entirety, as well as supplementing with HOE and Zaccaro. It works out to just about exactly 180 days of math. Fewer if we are able to skip/accelerate through some MM lessons. So, we started math in mid-August and will finish in mid-June, with days off here and there, and breaks around the holidays. It's doable.

[Just Jane]

- add the fun math on top of the regular math

 

- I would look toward judiciously skipping lessons, parts of lessons, or whole series of lessons in MM on topics that you covered in Miquon.

 

- Consider doing math as homework on coop days.

 

- I would plan on math two to three days per week over the summer. (I'm a huge fan of summer math for everyone ;). My kids, who currently all attend school, are not big fans.) The summer should allow you to wrap up any remaining lessons in your MM level before the next school year starts.

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