A Homeschooling Momma’s Go-To For Math
Does math time at your house take way too long? Does it feel like a struggle? Do you feel like there should be a better way? Trust me, Teaching Textbooks is an app-based answer to your homeschooling math needs and it is the way to go! Not convinced by just the suggestion? Keep reading.
In case you are wondering, this is NOT a paid review. This is just one momma reaching out to hopefully bless others in their homeschooling journeys.
My kids actually enjoy learning math with Teaching Textbooks.
I’m just going to start right here. Learning should be enjoyable. After all, my goal here is to raise life-long learners. The Teaching Textbooks platform has gone above and beyond creating a user-friendly interface with visually appealing lessons that my students enjoy using. My elementary, middle, and high school students all stay engaged in a variety of ways including humorous lessons, virtual stickers, backgrounds, and virtual buddies. I have students in our co-op that have vastly different learning styles and each of them use Teaching Textbooks successfully and happily!
My kids are learning math and retaining their knowledge without the need for constant help from me.
We are busy, are we not? We could all use some help to take something, anything off of our plates. Less time consuming curriculum gives us more time to bless our families. Teaching Textbooks has their platform set up for student success. There are a variety of options that parents can set according to their own liking. We have hints enabled but honestly my kids don’t seem to need them that often. We have also enabled a second chance option that allows free response questions that are answered incorrectly to be answered a second time. The interactive teaching lessons are very effective and each math question tells the student in the upper right hand corner which lesson that particular topic was taught. If they need to go back and review, they can do so very easily and quickly. This gives our students the ability to take control of their learning.
My kids are not spending a crazy amount of time on math.
Teaching Textbooks lessons allow students to work at their own pace. Naturally, my students take different amounts of time to complete their daily lesson. One thing I am certain of is that no one is spending too much time doing their math. It really does seem that the questions for each of the lessons are balanced in that the problems that take longer to work out are given in ratio to review problems that are quicker to solve. My students with shorter attention spans may occasionally take a “brain break” during their math time but usually they check off their math task in one sitting.
My kids have the freedom of learning math anywhere they have an internet connection (and sometimes even if they don’t).
This math curriculum is app-based. After you pay for the level your student needs, you can download and access the account on the app on the start date you chose at checkout. The app can be downloaded and accessed via a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. This gives you a ton of flexibility in when or where your student completes their daily math. Some of my kids even enjoy doing their math in the car and on the go on a mobile phone. The app will download a few of the lessons at a time. As long of the next lesson has downloaded, it can be completed without an internet connection and then syncs across devices the next time you connect the device to the internet.
I can easily check on all my kid’s progress from the Parent Portal.
Teaching Textbooks allows me to check the progress of all my students via one portal online. I can see their overall progress and also their performance on each lesson or quiz. If a student has trouble on a lesson and misses several problems, you can go into that lesson and delete all the problems or just the ones they missed. The student can go back and watch the lesson again and try the problems they missed or the whole lesson based on your preferences. We definitely redo missed problems if they score below a grade of 85. My thoughts on this is that we do not move on with lessons until mastery is obtained. We very rarely run into this issue though.
Teaching Textbooks is priced very reasonably and worth every penny!
Teaching textbooks does not break the bank. They have excellent price points for the quality of their amazing program. On top of excellent prices, they have a large family plan for those of us with big families. Read about it first though, because there are a few scenarios where the large family plan does not offer a better deal based on which level your kiddos need. They explain it very carefully though on their large family plan link.
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