Homeschooling By Principles (Not By Rules)

[@kjlehman9155]

Okay since we are talking about math... 😅 I have a 15-year-old that started last school year doing teaching textbooks algebra. She struggled with it and the farther she got, the lower her score became. Up until high school we used a different math program, that I would check daily, but since teaching textbook does the checking for you, I unfortunately let it slide until she was rather lost. We ended up just stopping with algebra for the year and spent the rest of the year doing other math problems, but not algebra. I realized that I am to blame with this, I should have walked alongside her and worked through it with her, but I didn't. Math is not her strong suit, at least not algebra. What would your advice be for the coming year? Do we start that program over? Di we pick up where she started struggling and work through it with her.... that that doesn't always go well. Do I try a new algebra program with her? or do we just skip algebra altogether and do more of a consumer math? She still has 3 years of school left, so there's plenty of time to work things out.

[@FredRayLybrand]

So, I looked at the reviews of Teaching Textbook...not too good (3 of 5 stars). I think your focus should be to get her as far as you can, but make sure she REALLY UNDERSTANDS the math she knows. We had great results with Saxon (but we didn't let the kid's happiness/enjoyment guide us 🙂 I'd switch programs...but start back with what she knows. Next, I'd keep up with her daily scores and test her once a week. Does that make sense?

[@FredRayLybrand]

Sorry I haven't responded... I will soon. Hang in there :-)