Guess what youngest son is reading now? His geometry textbook for next year. It's
Life of Fred, so it is a combination of a geometry textbook and a funny story book. He's already been rereading his textbooks for fractions and decimals and pre-algebra this week. He's always said that he doesn't like math but he's good at it, but now he might just be starting to like it.
So, do y'all REALLY like Fred math? I did the fractions book with Michael a few years ago. We liked it & I debated on getting more, but just went back to Saxon like I had been using. Now, reading your post here it makes me wonder if perhaps I should order more Fred math for the last two coming along......I've always struggled/disliked math....ALOT. I can do it, but prefer NOT to. LOL!! And you know that ALL my kids lean more towards the arts. I have NO math majors here. What do you think??
ReplyDeleteThe kids really love it. While their Dad was trying to decide between Teaching Textbooks and Life of Fred this year, they were rooting really hard for LOF. I think your kids would probably like it.
ReplyDeleteSo, which ones do y'all have/use now? I need to check into this again here soon. I'm just going to leave things alone with Jon....it's his senior year & we are going to do the GED math book that Chris & Ashley did & get him ready for that & SATs. Need to brush up on grammar & essay writing. Got any good ideas/referrals for that?
ReplyDeleteThey did life of Fred for prealgebra, teaching textbooks for Algebra 1, will do life of Fred for Geometry (we felt like it helped our oldest with the ACT which has a ton of geometry on it) and as to what they will do for Algebra 2, I don't know. I know the kids like LOF better, but my husband prefers Teaching Textbooks. I don't know if he feels it is more thorough or if it is easier for him. I'll tell you this though, Life of Fred is a lot cheaper. TT is almost 200 dollars a year but it has a good resale value I've heard.
ReplyDeleteAs for writing, I don't know. My youngest who is just starting high school is dysgraphic and so we have to approach his writing differently. My daughter who is going into 11th grade is still going to be using the writing book I got her last year. I think it's called Jump In, a workbook for reluctant writers. She likes it okay. We use a variety of things for grammar, a hodge podge. :-)