What can you expect from the Math Lessons curriculum series?
- Math Lessons has a three-fold purpose:
- It is designed and written to give your child a strong mathematical foundation, while protecting and nurturing their love of learning.
- Because it is produced and published by, Master Books, one of the industry’s leading Biblical worldview publishers, it is designed to strengthen your family relationships, faith, and Biblical worldview.
- It is designed to be a tool to help you lead your children to Christ.
- Math Lessons has a flavor of the Charlotte Mason education method, using
- short lessons to help train the child’s attention
- copywork and narration as a tool to move the math concepts through the cognitive learning levels
- a teaching style that addresses the whole child through stories, hands-on activities, and real life use of the math concepts
- Like all Master Books curriculum, each level of Math Lessons for a Living Education includes an optional lesson plan to take you through the entire course in a 36-week school year.
- The Math Lessons Placement Tests will help you place your student exactly where they need to start in the series.
- Go HERE to read much more in-depth information about the hearth-focused method of education used in Math Lessons for a Living Education.
Math Lessons for a Living Education Supplemental Products
- The Math Lessons for a Living Education Teaching Companion
- All kinds of encouragement from me to you!
- An overview of the elements of the curriculum and their purpose.
- Teaching tips galore!
- A comprehensive scope and sequence for the entire series.
- All of the recipes in the entire series, all in one place.
- A handy guide for all of the levels of this series.
- So much more!
- Practice Makes Perfect Packets – One for each level of Math Lessons for a Living Education!
- Practice pages that match the Math Lesson curriculum lesson by lesson.
- A little extra math concept practice for that rainy afternoon.
- Four quizzes for those families who live in states where they are required.
- Printed Right-brain (WHOLE-FACT) flashcards!
- Simple, rectangular addition and subtraction, whole-fact flashcards.
- Triangular multiplication and division family, whole-fact flashcards.
- Math K is a collaborative effort between Angela O’Dell, curriculum developer of the Math Lessons for a Living Education, and Carrie Bailey, early childhood development specialist.
- This level of Math Lessons is specifically designed to mesh with Master Books Simply K, creating a complete Kindergarten curriculum package.
- Math K teaches these concepts
- learning numbers from 0 to 10
- shapes and patterns
- sorting and matching
- cooking and measuring
- Math 1 is a wonderful adventure through the discovery of the world around us. Your child will spend the summer at Grandma and Grandpa’s farm with twins, Charlie and Charlotte.
- This level of Math Lessons is specifically designed to take your young student by the hand and gently explore the mathematical concepts so evident in the rhythms and patterns of Creation.
- Math 1 teaches these concepts
- reviews numbers from 0 to 10 and teaches numbers, including place value, up to 100.
- Addition and subtraction concepts
- Shapes and beginning fraction concepts
- Time and calendar concepts
- So much more!
- Math 2 continues the adventure of learning math in context. The storyline of Math Level 2 continues on with the adventures of the twins, Charlie and Charlotte, and their new baby sister, Ella.
- This level of Math Lessons is specifically designed to help build your child’s independence and attention span as they work through more complex concepts.
- Math 2 teaches these concepts
- Building on addition and subtraction concepts
- More in-depth clock concepts
- Story problem analysis
- Money concepts
- So much more!
- Math 3 is a delight! So many children (and their moms!) have told me that Math Level 3 is their favorite. You too, may love the continuing story of Charlie, Charlotte, and little Ella, as they join their parents on an exciting mission trip adventure to Peru.
- Math Level 3 continues to be a wonderful weave of character stories and math concepts explained in real life situations. This level is written slightly more towards the student, moving in the direction of the goal of the independent learning brought in later in the series.
- Math 3 teaches these concepts
- Advanced addition and subtraction concepts
- Roman Numerals
- The relationship between Multiplication and Division
- More advance Money concepts
- So much more!
- Math 4 follows in the footsteps of the previous levels, as your children join their friends in the continued exploration of math concepts and life lessons.
- Math Level 4 takes your children on the Stevens Family vacation around the historical and geological landmarks of the Upper Midwest States. Level 4 is written almost entirely towards the student, allowing them to step further into that role of independent learner.
- Math 4 teaches these concepts
- Averaging
- Basic Geometry
- More advanced Multiplication and Division
- Metric measurements
- So much more!
- Math 5 brings many more upper elementary math concepts to life for your child as they again join the Stevens children in their adolescent adventures.
- Math Level 5 takes your children into the more grown-up experiences of earning money, making a project budget, and following more advance directions in multi-step word problems. Level 5 is written almost entirely towards the student, allowing them to step further into that role of independent learner.
- Math 5 teaches these concepts
- Factoring
- Advanced fraction concepts
- Multiplying decimals
- Beginner consumer’s math
- So much more!
- Math 6 is a special journey, which I specifically designed and created for your middle school aged student. This level is the last one in this series and prepares your student to easily step into the junior high math curriculum, Principles of Mathematics.
- Math Level 6 showcases a storyline that addresses many of the life situations that make children of this age anxious. As a mother of four children, a certified childhood development specialist, and a trained and experienced life and leadership coach for adolescents and teens, I stepped way off of the beaten path of your average math curriculum for this age, to create this unique curriculum.
- Through the storyline, your student will practice and deepen their knowledge of all of the math concepts that have become part of their knowledge bank so far. At the same time, the storyline helps them work through issues such as loss, the sickness of a loved one, dealing with bullies, making wise decisions, sibling relationships, fear in emergency situations, handling money correctly, and many other topics.
- Math 6 teaches these concepts
- More advanced fraction, decimal, and percent concepts
- Money and finances (shopping and deals)
- Maps, graphs, and charts
- Pre-algebraic equations
- So much more!
- Math 6 is the only level of the Math Lessons series that has a separate Teacher’s Guide. This TG enables you to have a separate resource, which contains all of the answer keys and quizzes.
