Time4Learning Middle School Math Curriculum…A Review

This week, I am going to do something a little different. I’m going to tell you about Time4Learning Middle School Math Curriculum. Probably the most important thing for me is that the curriculum plans my lessons for me. And next on my list of likes is that records are kept for me in a manner that allows me to sort the reports according to type of assignment, whether it is a quiz, learning activity, or chapter test. I can also pull the reports over my choice of date ranges, from one day, to an entire year. I can not say enough about how much this eases my work load as a home schooling parent.

My daughter enjoys the Math Curriculum for totally different reasons than I do. She is very active, and a visual learner. Time4Learning middle school math is multimedia, and interactive so it keeps her attention. She likes the fact that the narrator/characters read to her, or explain the part of math she is studying. Probably as important as the things I’ve already mentioned is this fact, the narrators give her the choice of reviewing the part of the lesson being taught. If she is ready to move on, she can opt to move forward. If she needs it explained again, then she can opt to have the lesson explained again, without penalty. The lessons and quizzes are not timed, which is good for my daughter, since she seems to have a terrible dislike of timers ticking off how much longer she has to do something.

All in all, I can give Time4Learning Middle school math curriculum a very glowing review. I like it, my daughter likes it, and she is definitely learning the material. The lessons make her think, and put the information taught into play, not just throw answers back. The biggest concern I might have about the curriculum is that if the child did not pack down the math facts and operations early on, there is not a lot of review of those things in the middle school area. That being said, there is a chapter available called “practice” which makes additional lessons available across the full year of math, in case your child might need a little extra practice, or needs something explained just a little differently.

My biggest complain about the curriculum? It only goes through eighth grade! I will have to find something else when we get ready to head to high school, but until then, I’m comfortable saying that my child is getting an excellent education in math through her middle school years.

I hope this review helps you if you are searching for a math curriculum for your middle school student.

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I know I have mentioned before that my oldest daughter applied to go to Cyber Academy which is part of our public school system.  Well we are awaiting for the call to say she has been accepted.  In the meantime she has decided to start a blog about this whole experience of going to school.  Writing has not been her strong suit and I am partly to blame.  When it came time for a writing assignment her brain would shut down and I would cave in and let her skip it.  My bad!  In preparation for the blog and just to simply help her with school she will be staying with the homeschool writing curriculum.  She has already improved so much.  She is such a go-getter I know she will succeed in this new endeavor!

I have already mentioned my 12 year old daughter has expressed she might want to go to public school.  Well now…the school we are looking at is a cyber school.  We already use a homeschool online curriculum so how different could this school be?  With that along with her online writing class that she already takes will she be ahead or right with her peers I ask?  I know they will do testing to place her but I question to her how different is this than being homeschooled at your own pace.  It really isn’t for the socialization because she goes a one full day and one half day.  I know I am fighting this but I hope she can see my point!

OMG!  My daughter’s seventh grade math is killing me.  I feel like I am learning all over again and thinking to myself didn’t I already put my time in on math….hehe!   Pre Algebrais like learning a foreign language.  I do think it is taught different today than when I was going to school.  With today’s technology I am glad she is able to pick it up better than me.  I feel she is getting a better foundation laid down than I had.  I am so glad I am able to sit down with her and learn it all over again.  Although I wouldn’t be doing this if I had a choice.  It is all because I am homeschooling her and enjoy teaching her.  Sometimes I need to vent to move forward with a clear head!

Boy do I remember the days my oldest daughter hated to read  and write because she didn’t understand spellings of words.  Now being in seventh grade I can not get her to put down a book.  She has a friend who has the Kindle and let her borrow it so she can read the new book she wanted.  There are some big words she comes across that still baffle her.  What I have turned that into is her writing and spelling assignments.  She gives me a list of the words she has  problems with and I make printable lists for her.  With that she will write the word a few times and I will give spelling test on them.  For some reason in her mind this is more fun than just a plain ol’ spelling test with random words for the week.  Go figure, but hey if it works…go with it!!

Well I knew what would be coming next!  The “I want a Kindle, Mom” statement.  I was doing some research on them and told her she needs to start saving for it and I will help her with the difference.  A couple of weeks have gone by and she went to the bookstore with her father to look for a gift for a friend.  While there she looking at their e-reader.  Much to my amazement she came home and said “I’m not sure if I want a e-reader, Mom.”   I asked why and she she said, ” I love the smell of books and holding them in my hand to read.”  Technology lost out on this one!