Mastery Math programs

[mom31257]

What programs out there are mastery approach instead of spiral approach?

I've been using Horizons Math with my ds. He is very strong in math skills and is retaining it very well. I truly believe he will learn math with any method. He is rather bored with doing problems day after day that he all ready knows. He is half way through 1st grade of Horizons and is on schedule to finish it this semester. He did Horizons K last semester.

Does anyone have any suggestions I could start using next year?

[AudreyTN]

We've thoroughly enjoyed Singapore. My ds7 sounds a lot like yours. He could learn with any program. We've tried a few, including Horizons. MY SON prefers Singapore, well, I do too.

Not sure if it's considered mastery or spiral though.

[mom31257]

Thanks for the suggestion. Is there somewhere I could see sample pages of the workbooks? Spiral approaches introduce a concept and have the student do problems for several days. It will leave that concept behind a few days, then reintroduce it for more review. A daily lesson would include the new concept and a variety of "review" problems of other concepts. A mastery approach usually is more like what you would think of as chapters. A lesson consists of primarily the concept being taught with perhaps a very few problems for review. You might have several lessons in a chapter on addition or just fractions, etc.

[AudreyTN]

Here's a link to CBD (http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?event=EBRN&category=Homeschool&N=1111543+5401&Ne=200800&Nso=1&Nu=product.endeca_rollup&format=1014667&Ns=product.number_sold). They always have good samples.

Here's to the Singapore Math website (http://www.singaporemath.com/Primary_Mathematics_US_Ed_s/39.htm). They have a few samples.

[TracyR]

Mastery
Math Programs:

Singapore
Bob Jones
Ace School of Tomorrow
Math U See
Rod and Staff
Calvert
that's all that I know of so far of complete math programs.
I know Christian Liberty has a mastery math program for K and 1st grade
as well as Seton(Catholic ) for K,1,2,3 and I think 4th now.

[SnowWhite]

I highly recommend the BJU Math program.

[athena1277]

MCP is also mastery. I used it for K and finished it. Then we went to R&S (also mastery), because I thought I would love it. It was too "cutesie" for me. We're sticking it out for the rest of the year and will be going back to MCP in the fall. MCP has lots of good suggestions in the TM for ways to introduce/teach the lesson, but they are easy to skip if you don't want them.

[Rosie_0801]

Math on the Level is a mixture of mastery and spiral, and they only recommend doing five problems on paper per day. The rest is a hands on teaching lesson. That'd take him up to the end of year 8, roughly.

Rosie

[razorbackmama]

Math Mammoth is another mastery program.

[Mallory]

Miquon

[Parrothead]

What programs out there are mastery approach instead of spiral approach?

I've been using Horizons Math with my ds. He is very strong in math skills and is retaining it very well. I truly believe he will learn math with any method. He is rather bored with doing problems day after day that he all ready knows. He is half way through 1st grade of Horizons and is on schedule to finish it this semester. He did Horizons K last semester.

Does anyone have any suggestions I could start using next year?
If he is bored with it and knows the work, could you move him through it faster (skip most of the stuff he knows) or let him start the next book in the series?

[ELaurie]

is a very effective mastery approach. The link is in my signature line :)