Abeka = Math?
August 27, 2007 8:58 am HomeschoolingA few posts ago, I mentioned that we use Abeka for math. Let me just brag on that program. I really like it for a variety of reasons, but one of my favorite things about it is that it is largely self teaching. My kids can pick up their math books, read the explanations and proceed, for the most part, and this applies even to Country, who is in pre-Algebra.
Occasionally, they will need a bit of tutoring, and that’s when Abeka really shines. See, that “tutor” is me, and Abeka still does math the old fashioned way. We work from right to left. I’ve heard that in public schools they now work left to right, and I cannot figure out how they do that for the life of me. No wonder parents are needing to get online tutoring for their kids! Of course, the suspicious me wonders if the public schools do that just to keep parents out of the loop. They say they want parents to be involved, but then they make it very difficult to give kids homework help yourself.
Oops, I think I just revealed myself as a conspiracy theorist.
Deb (29 comments.) :
Date: September 5, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
why do schools read left to right now, instead of right to left to add and stuff? Seems like it makes more work!
cass :
Date: September 9, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
I can’t figure out how to do it that way.