Welcome to Math on the Level, a complete K-8 homeschool math curriculum designed specifically for the home learning environment. This well-tested curriculum provides a complete set of tools to help you teach any math topic from pre-K through pre-algebra and give your children a strong foundation in math. Math on the Level combines math instruction with meaningful, hands-on experiences using normal daily-life activities that help make math real. Although topics are grouped and sequenced logically, you have the flexibility to change the order to meet the needs of your children and your family. Parents are encouraged to teach to the child's maturation level rather than trying to force a child to learn a topic before being able to truly comprehend it. To facilitate long term retention of math, the curriculum features an innovative 5-A-Day system of individualized, continual review that is designed to give the child regular practice of every learned math concept using only five daily problems.

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Here is a summary of the significant ways this curriculum and its approach are unique.

The Math on the Level approach

• To make math real, the curriculum emphasizes teaching math through practical, family-life experiences. With Math on the Level, the world is your classroom!
• Because each child is unique, math instruction is focused to each child's maturation level, not age or grade level. (No topics are grade leveled.)
• Its organization and practical emphasis let you teach different-aged children together if desired and include math instruction in your family activities (even in unit studies).
• An effective yet simple to use record keeping system helps you be sure that all necessary math concepts have been covered as well as plan and track each child's individualized 5-A-Day review.
• To address different learning styles, more than one teaching approach is included for difficult topics.
• Instead of using a generalized set of 30 (or more) daily practice problems that you hope will give sufficient practice for your child, the Math on the Level 5-A-Day review system lets you tailor the review to your child's actual level of need and make sure each child gets the right amount of practice without busywork.
• To ensure long-term retention, every math concept the child has learned is practiced continually throughout the curriculum at least once every 3 weeks (and more often as needed).

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The product

• The full curriculum includes seven bright, high-quality volumes (printed in full color).
• The four Teaching Guides (Operations, Geometry & Measurements, Money & Decimals, and Fractions) cover topics beginning with pre-K and going through through pre-algebra.
• The curriculum includes every math topic the child will need to learn from pre-school through (i.e. including) pre-algebra.
• The Teaching Guides also include practice problems for use in the 5-A-Day review with full solutions (not just an answer key).
• Because the author is also a homeschool mom, the curriculum uses a style that is concise, conversational, and easy to follow. It also addresses many of the challenges of teaching at home.
• Because the author has a BS in Child Development and MA in Special Education, the instructions address a wide range of learning styles and needs.
• Because it has no consumables, one curriculum can be used for your whole family.
• The curriculum is sold either as a complete set or as a starter set with upgrades.

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The benefits

• The clear teaching guides make it easy to teach math, even if you aren't confident with math.
• The curriculum is very flexible and adapts well to different teaching approaches and changing family needs.
• Children who previously were bored or frustrated with math start looking forward to math time (and the 5-A-Day reviews).
• Math instruction can be included in normal daily life activities or unit studies – family lifestyle learning!
• Because children are taught in practical ways what they are able to understand, they experience lower frustration and sense of failure.
• Children who learn math easily go as fast as they can, and those who need more time can go as slowly as needed without feeling behind.
• A simple placement procedure lets you identify and fill any gaps in your child's understanding of previously taught math concepts.
• The 5-A-Day review system makes sure each child regularly practices all math concepts to ensure long-term retention without gaps (and also without busywork).
• Math on the Level can be used to teach any child who is struggling in math.
  

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Our customers include

• Parents who want to be better teachers to their children, even if they themselves aren't that confident in math.
• Those who wish to have fun teaching their children.
• Those who want to focus on the child's maturation level instead of an over-emphasis on age or grade level.
• Families who prefer practical life instructional methods over a strictly paper-and-pencil approach to math.
• Homeschool teachers who prefer a flexible curriculum that gives them control, versus one that is highly structured and scripted.
• Homeschool parents who want to teach their children and who see the benefit and savings of using one flexible curriculum to teach all their children from pre-K all the way through (i.e. including) pre-algebra.
• Those who comprehend and appreciate the differences between generalized textbook approaches and truly individualized instruction.
• Those whose children are quick to learn math and want to move quickly through a math curriculum.
• Parents whose children don't like math because the pace is too fast and the problems are too many.
• Parents whose children have special learning needs and want a broader range of multi-sensory approaches to math instruction.
• Those who use Living Math, Charlotte Mason, Classical Education, Teaching the Trivium, or similar approaches to education.
• Any parents who want to help their children better understand math (regardless where they are schooled).

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What Math on the Level isn't

• A workbook or video approach where someone else teaches your child.
• An approach where math is presented only as a series of abstract, pencil and paper concepts.
• A one-size-fits-all kind of curriculum where the same teaching scripts, sequence, and (usually large) set of practice problems are supposed to fit all children.
• A textbook approach with a prescribed scope and sequence that you and your child must follow.
• A self-instruction approach where the child is essentially self-taught (older children and adults using Math on the Level for review may be able to use it this way).

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