Math-U-See

This year for math, we are using Math-U-See.  My kids are getting older and if you are a homeschooling parent, you know that some subjects get a lot harder as the kids get into higher grades.  This is our first year in high school, and I have to make sure that C14 stays on track with everything.  I love the idea of Mr. Demme teaching the concepts through DVD that we can just pop in and watch and then apply the lessons taught to the corresponding pages in the workbooks. If you have trouble the first time, watch it again!  He actually makes math look easy, well at least when we are watching him do it that is.  Since I wanted Math-U-See for high school, I decided to go ahead and use it for A12/7th grade too just to simplify things in my brain since I have a lot going on so simple is better right now.  Well, simple is actually better all the time but especially when going through major life adjustments. 

Math-U-See has a fantastic website so if you need more information or help, you must go there and check out everything they have.  

Getting started

Parent resources

Drills

Worksheets

They even have online co-ops. 

Math-U-See Pinterest pins by pinners

Math-U-See Pinterest page

Math-U-See on Facebook

Math-U-See Twitter

So far, so good with the Math-U-See program.  We started our year out a little slowly due to life situations but that is just one of the great things about homeschooling.  You can go at the pace you want and take breaks when you really need to.  

A12 is using Zeta.  I am including the table of contents which was taken directly from the Math-U-See website.  Please visit the website for more information.

Major Concepts and Skills Include:

• Expanding understanding of place value from positive powers of ten to include decimals
• Fluently adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing multiple digit decimals using place-value strategies
• Solving real-world problems with decimals and percentages
• Understanding the metric system and converting from one unit of measure to another

Additional Concepts and Skills:

• Understanding and simplifying exponents
• Understanding negative numbers and representing them on the coordinate plane
• Using properties of operations to simplify and evaluate algebraic expressions
• Interpreting and graphing relationships between dependent and independent variables
• Understanding of plane geometry & geometric symbols
• Using ratio reasoning to solve problems

C14 is using Algebra 1.  I am including the table of contents which was taken directly from the Math-U-See website.  Please see the website for more information.

Table of Contents

• Commutative and Associative Properties
• Order of Operations
• Solving for an Unknown with One Variable
• Distributive Property
• Cartesian Coordinates
• Graphing a Line
• Slope-Intercept Formula
• Graphing Parallel Lines and the Equation of a Line
• Graphing Perpendicular Lines
• Finding the Slope-Intercept Formula with Different Givens