Horizons Math: Where are the stupid flashcards???

[CookieMonster]

I am asking for a friend who is a new homeschooler.

She's looking at the teacher's manual. And it calls for flashcards. And she doesn't have any flashcards. And she thinks she should.

And if she's supposed to make these flashcards, where are the instructions to make them? She doesn't understand what the different flashcards they call for are.

I'm trying to help her over the phone...so I can't physically look for anything. A little help, please.

[nukeswife]

I've used Horizons K and 3rd and there are never any flashcards that come with it. I'm guessing that you need to make them. I say guessing because I never bothered with them as my kids don't do well with flashcards.

There may be something earlier in the TM that says how to make them but I'm not positive on that one.

Sorry I wasn't more help

[JanOH]

Laughing here because I just started Horizons today with my ds and yesterday I was wondering the same thing about the flashcards. I finally figured out that I think you are to make them yourself. The instructions are hard to find but by reading the teacher's manual in a few different places, I determined that, for instance, when they say drill addition flashcards #1 - 9 they mean all the addition problems that equal 9 or less and they also want flashcards with the problem AND answer on one side, and just the problem on the other because you drill with the answers for several weeks. The other trick I noticed is they want the kidlet to read the problem with the answer then reverse the fact and say it again. i.e. 4 + 1 = 5, 1 + 4 = 5.

Now someone with more Horizons experience can tell me if I'm right or wrong!

Janet

[kdeno]

WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE PLACE VALUE MATERIALS?????????:iagree::chillpill::tongue_smili e::lol:

[Mrs Mungo]

Yes, you make the flashcards yourself.

WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE PLACE VALUE MATERIALS?????????:iagree::chillpill::tongue_smili e::lol:

Base ten blocks and place value chart (it just needs columns for ones, tens, hundreds, thousands)

Blocks:
https://www.schoolbox.com/Base-Ten-Value-Set-Blue.aspx?CategoryID=1839

eta: the way I figured out what we needed for the first few grades, manipulative-wise, was reading the Rainbow Resource catalog. I know off the top of my head you also generally need a hundred chart and counters, and a Judy clock.

[tess in the burbs]

that Sonlight SELLS a manipulatives kit for Horizons. I was intrigued since we were looking to buy but Alpha Omega doesn't even sell this 'kit'. So maybe your neighbor needs to check out the kit at Sonlight and see if they premade the cards for her ;-)

[Mrs Mungo]

Actually...I'm looking at the First Grade book (I have K-6, some older some newer, if anyone needs specific info I can check). It's an older addition but in the Table of Contents for the Teacher's Manual it says "Manipulatives...Page 40" and right there (on Pages 40-43) is a list of all the manipulatives you need and which lessons use them.

[Mrs Mungo]

that Sonlight SELLS a manipulatives kit for Horizons. I was intrigued since we were looking to buy but Alpha Omega doesn't even sell this 'kit'. So maybe your neighbor needs to check out the kit at Sonlight and see if they premade the cards for her ;-)

I just looked at the kit, it includes index cards to make your own flashcards.

[CookieMonster]

Yes, you make the flashcards yourself.

Base ten blocks and place value chart (it just needs columns for ones, tens, hundreds, thousands)

Blocks:

eta: the way I figured out what we needed for the first few grades, manipulative-wise, was reading the Rainbow Resource catalog. I know off the top of my head you also generally need a hundred chart and counters, and a Judy clock.

Ms. Mungo, you rock. This answers all the Q she had.

I told her all I had to do was post a Q on these forums. ;)

Off to direct my friend to this helpful thread...

[Omma]

Just wanted to say that I thought the SL kit for Horizons Math was a waste of money. But we did buy the flashcards from SL that is supposed to go with Singapore Math. Flashcards are flashcards! :D Oh, and thank you for solving the mystery as to why I was given index cards in my kit. I also got a small stack of green construction paper, and I have no idea what that was supposed to be for, either!

Brenda

[Trivium Academy]

Oh, this made me LAUGH out LOUD! I didn't know about the kit that the other were talking about, I created our own flashcards...urgh. We no longer use flashcards in math.

[Victoria]

When I started Horizons four years ago, I went into panic mode searching the internet and hitting school supply stores looking for the massive amount of flashcards used in Horizons. After much searching (and angst), I found out that most of the flashcards called for have never been made---nor did I ever need them. I think you can do the program just fine with the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division flashcards. Get the boxes that run 1-18. They are a little more difficult to find in stores, but you can find them on the internet. They make blank flash cards (Office Depot), too, if you want to make your own.

[kdeno]

I had to spread it around :-P

[Tonia]

that Sonlight SELLS a manipulatives kit for Horizons. I was intrigued since we were looking to buy but Alpha Omega doesn't even sell this 'kit'. So maybe your neighbor needs to check out the kit at Sonlight and see if they premade the cards for her ;-)

Learning Things also sells kits for different math programs. Here is the link (http://www.learningthings.com/items.asp?Cc=HORTUB) for the Horizons math kits.