blessedmom3 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 And is it ok to transition to standards from 4B US edition ? My son is doing great with the us edition,but I heard standards is better and has more practice. Also, what do you switch to after Singapore 6 ? I'm a little bit nervous as my oldest is approaching the logic stage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I used the one with the Home Instructor's guide. I think that is the US edition. There isn't a HIG for the standards guide. I used the US edition all the way through. I had considered switching, but I didn't want to give up the HIG. I am so glad I had the guides for 5th an 6th grade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 There is a HiG for the Standards editions. According to the FAQs on singaporemath.com, if you're switching between US and Standards, it's better to do at the end of a level rather than in the middle. So finish 4B US then start 5A standards. I used US for 1A and B, then moved to Standards. It does have more review with a review section in the text and workbook after every chapter. It has additional topics than the US edition as well. The IP books are linked to US, so sometimes when in 5A Standards we were using 5B IP (and vice versa). I'm pleased with Standards. We're actually stopping with Singapore after 5B though. 6 is mostly review (a bit of distance/rate/time word problems that's new). We'll likely be continuing with Elements of Mathematics and maybe some AoPS. There are a lot of threads discussing where people have gone from Singapore. Some have used Singapore books for the high school level as well. I'm very pleased with the foundation my son has from Singapore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 There is not a Home Instructor's Guide for the 6a & 6b Standards edition. We are very glad we went all the way through Singapore. We went from 6a & 6b into AoPS pre-algebra and it was a great transition. My son wasn't ready for algebra in 6th or 7th grade. Well, maybe 7th, but it would be a bigger struggle than necessary. I am glad we took the extra year for him to adapt to a different program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 There is not a Home Instructor's Guide for the 6a & 6b Standards edition. That's right... I forgot about that! Also, sounds like they don't have plans to do a HiG for 6 Standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 The TM for 6 SE is very similar to the U.S. edition HIG. The downside is the higher price tag. The SE switched some of the content from NEM/DM 1 down to the 6th grade books. So if you are planning to continue on with NEM/DM, then you can skip level 6 if you want and go straight to the 7th grade book (this is what my DD did, though she did do the probability & statistics chapters in 6B since she has to take the CA state STAR test). If you are planning to switch to a different curriculum, then I would definitely do 6A/B since there are some topics most other programs will expect the student has covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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