{"id":21840,"date":"2013-04-16T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:15:52","slug":"teaching-textbooks-another-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/teaching-textbooks-another-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Textbooks – Another Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

April is curriculum review month on TheHappyHousewife.com. We want to help you find the best curriculum for your family by posting a curriculum review every day! You can find all the\u00a0curriculum reviews<\/a>\u00a0here.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

by Linda Etherton<\/em><\/p>\n

You may have already read Toni\u2019s Teaching Textbook review<\/a>\u00a0and how she was unhappy with her daughter\u2019s ACT math scores.\u00a0 But hopefully you also know that there is no curriculum that is right or wrong for every family and every student.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to give a a different perspective on Teaching Textbooks by sharing why I used it and how it worked out for us.<\/p>\n

\"Teaching<\/p>\n

I used high school level Teaching Textbooks<\/a> for two of my three students.\u00a0\u00a0I believe it was a good choice, but I chose it for\u00a0both of them for completely different reasons.\u00a0 One really struggled with math and the other really excelled at it.<\/p>\n

The Struggling Math Student<\/h3>\n

For one of my sons, math was that subject that we both dreaded, and over the years, math time often ended in tears.\u00a0 He did learn and grow in his math skills, but the curriculum also kept getting harder.\u00a0 By high school I knew he would not be majoring in anything in college that required much math, and I was tired of math being such a burden to us both.<\/p>\n

It was in the middle of a school year that I switched him to Teaching Textbooks, and once I did we never looked back.\u00a0 Math didn\u2019t suddenly become easy for him, but it became manageable.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t cause so much frustration.\u00a0 He was able to follow the lessons and do the problems without it taking all day.\u00a0 He could work independently, and most of the time he used the discs to figure out the problems he got wrong.<\/p>\n

I used Algebra 1 and 2 and Geometry with this student, and then he went on to community college math.\u00a0 He did have to take a non-credit remedial math class there (which really wasn\u2019t helpful due to a bad teacher), but he did fine with the college algebra class he took the following semester.\u00a0 He will take a statistics class next year, and then be done with math.<\/p>\n

The Excelling Math Student<\/h3>\n

Another son was just the opposite.\u00a0 He was always way ahead in math, and by seventh grade was ready for Algebra 1.\u00a0 Considering that he is also on the young end of his grade level, I wanted something that wasn\u2019t over his head in terms of the word problems that were used.\u00a0 One program that I liked was actually written for college level, and I felt it would be overwhelming for this student.<\/p>\n

I did have concerns about Teaching Textbooks not covering enough material or properly preparing him for standardized tests.\u00a0 However, I figured that at the pace he was going, we would have time to go over things again.<\/p>\n

He is currently in 11th grade.\u00a0 Last year he finished the pre-calculus book, which is the highest level that Teaching Textbooks goes to.\u00a0 This year I had him spend time doing SAT preparation (including the Chalkdust SAT Math Review), and he enrolled at the local community college for this spring semester.<\/p>\n

I was curious to see how he would do on the college\u2019s math placement test.\u00a0 He had no problems, and the woman giving the test was surprised and asked if one of his parents was a math teacher.\u00a0 He placed into the calculus class, but we decided for several reasons to start him with pre-calculus.\u00a0 One reason was that I wanted to be sure he had gotten a good enough pre-calculus course before moving on.\u00a0 I need not have worried.\u00a0 He is easily getting an A in the class.<\/p>\n

He has not yet taken the SAT, so I can\u2019t say how well the curriculum prepared him for that.\u00a0 Plus, he did other math preparation anyway.\u00a0 I do know that some people say you need to complete the entire Teaching Textbooks program to get everything.\u00a0 We did that, and it worked for him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure I would recommend Teaching Textbooks<\/a> for an average learner, but I can say that for us, it worked for the struggling math student and the student who excels and was ahead of schedule with math.<\/p>\n

Linda Etherton is the managing editor here at The Happy Housewife. \u00a0She also blogs about gluten-free living at The Gluten-Free Homemaker<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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