Does anyone have lesson plans or HW assign. for Larson's ...

[Mommyfaithe]

Elementary and Int. Algebra combined book with the DVD's or do I need to figure this out myself??

Please say you have them...please...an online source would be fine too.

Thanks
~~Faithe

[Laurie in CA]

I bought directly from Chalkdust and there are no daily lesson plans. I did receive a dvd schedule with the number of minutes per lesson on the dvd which were around 30 minutes average and these correlated directly with the table of contents of the Larson text. This would give you a guide as to how long the dvd is you're watching. The only schedule that is recommended is watch the dvd, pick 25 problems from the lesson to do. They also suggest watching the dvd twice, which we rarely did. We always do more than 25 problems. If you spend an average of 3 days on a section, a couple of days reviewing a chapter, a day to do a mid-chapter quiz and a day to do the chapter test, you should be able to finish all ten chapters. So for Algebra 1 there are 47 sections, with 47 dvd lessons to watch. Most chapters have a mid-chapter quiz, review section, and a test. If you spend 3 days per section, 2 days for review, 1 day for a quiz, and 1 day for a chapter test it adds up to 141+10+20+10=181. This is just a rough average, a couple of lessons were much longer to watch and I treated it like an extra section (there were 3 like that) We did not finish the book and did math 3 times a week this summer to finish because we spent more than 3 days on a lesson. Hope this helps.

[Mommyfaithe]

Thanks!! I hope I am not in over my head in planning this out.

So basically...we watch the section and then cover 25 or so problems. I see the text recommends every other odd and then to do every other odd on sections that there were too many errors. That still leaves a gazillion even ones if we need extra work....
I have a feeling we will take more than a year in this book...sigh...
Faithe

[Laurie in CA]

Mommy,
Something I learned this year is that the problem sets are very advanced in the last part of each section and usually the test questions didn't cover this advanced stuff. (I'm not talking about the story problem portions) Chalkdust suggests "self-pacing" which means to me that I don't need to require the super hard parts to be mastered. The Larson text has wayyyy more than you need to do. Keep that in mind and make sure your student understands the basics of the lesson and require mastery of that. Don't go beyond what Mr. Mosely covered in the lesson. I went a little overboard last year and will try to simplify when we do Geometry this year. Less is more, concentrate on the basics... my mantra this year.

[Mommyfaithe]

Mommy,
Something I learned this year is that the problem sets are very advanced in the last part of each section and usually the test questions didn't cover this advanced stuff. (I'm not talking about the story problem portions) Chalkdust suggests "self-pacing" which means to me that I don't need to require the super hard parts to be mastered. The Larson text has wayyyy more than you need to do. Keep that in mind and make sure your student understands the basics of the lesson and require mastery of that. Don't go beyond what Mr. Mosely covered in the lesson. I went a little overboard last year and will try to simplify when we do Geometry this year. Less is more, concentrate on the basics... my mantra this year.

Thanks!!! I do have a tendency to go WAYYYY overboard. I too am focusing on basics this year...read...write math...

How did you assign the videos??

[Laurie in CA]

This summer we did math 3 times a week for an hour or a bit more, maybe 15 minutes. (My daughter held me to that) Day 1-We would watch a video for 30-45 minutes depending on how many times we paused it. She would take notes and pause when needed. Then we would try to get through the first 1 or 2 easy sections in the text, even if it went a little over an hour. Day 2-we would work as much of the rest of the sections. Day 3-finish the rest of the lesson. On days 2 and 3 we would try to stick to the hour limit. If we didn't have too much left on day 3 we would go ahead and watch the next video lesson, then finish the previous lesson. This seemed to keep me on schedule or a little ahead and probably won't be necessary during the school year when I have more days to work with. Last year we repeated the whole chapter on slopes so that's what put us behind. On day 1, I felt it was important to do the first couple of easy sections on the new lesson because it seemed to give her confidence and it usually only took about 20 minutes. There were times we repeated the video lesson when I felt we needed it. I also split up long lessons by watching half the video, doing the first 2 easy sections, then watching the rest of the video the next day. I always watch the video with her because it saves time when she needs help. (It's too hard wading through the text)

[Mommyfaithe]

I spent most of yesterday planning this book out and I found that it is going to take more than a school year to finish this book as it takes between 3-4 weeks to cover each chapter...and then I know we are going to have to take some time on extra chapters. Now, I need to know if this book is indeed considered Algebra 2 and if it is sufficient to cover 10 or 11 of the 13 chapters with the remainder over next summer.

I do now have a good lesson plan...

Watch Videos and take notes
Read/ study section paying special attention to study tips/ Tech tips/ examples and definitions
Do review prob set


Day 2:
Do every circled problem (2 pp's) every other odd problem...(about 25 per day)
Check and correct

Day 3

Do every circled problem (every other odd for remainder of exercises...about 25 problems)
Check and correct...choose a few extra problems that you had trouble with and do those.)

Day 4
Go back to day 1.

Ever week or so is a mid chapter quiz...ever chapter has a test and every 3 chapters has a cumulative test....

Anyone with experience with chalkdust think this will work??

Thanks,
Faithe