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Math (BJUP)

Math (BJUP)

BJUP's math program is designed to be taught from the Teacher's Editions using manipulatives, activities, and interactive discussion. Teacher's Editions in the Homeschool Kits streamline the program for use at home. The curriculum does an excellent job of presenting concepts in a variety of ways to reach different learning styles. The student worktext is used for practice and reinforcement. Since much learning occurs through activity and discussion, workbook learning is a lesser part of each lesson; you cannot just give the student the workbook without first teaching the lesson. The need for teacher presentaion particularly distinguishes these texts for the middle grade levels from most others available to home educators.

In the third editions of this program (available for grades K5 through 5 as of March 2011), the lessons are scripted in the Teacher's Editions. They walk the teacher/parent through the lesson step by step with script for what the teacher is to say and do at each step. TE's include reduced reproductions of student workbook pages with answers overprinted.

The workbooks are colorful and appealingly illustrated. They include cumulative review and quizzes and the end of each chapter. Third edition programs each have a Reviews workbook with two pages per day of additional practice on: concepts taught in each day's lesson, concepts and skills from prior lessons, and math facts. An inexpensive Student Maniplulatives Packet adds elements for hands-on learning. Booklets of tests are sold separately as are their corresponding answer key booklets.

Third edition Teacher's Editions include a "Teacher's Toolkit" on CD-ROM. The CD's contain instructional pages as well as enrichment pages, reteaching pages, fact review, extended activies for students. Most of these used to be available in separate books that you could purchase for students depending upon whether they were advanced, average, or struggling. Having pages on the CD provides much greater flexibility since a student might struggle with one concept while easily grasping others; now you print only what you need. The CD's also include calculator activities, teaching charts (visual aids), reproducibles for manipulatives not in the Student Manipulatives Packet, and the answer key for the Reviews book. (Note that BJUP also sells classroom-designed Teacher's Visual Packets for each level, but these are now available as smaller, printable pages on the Teacher's Toolkit CD for homeschool use.) In the Teacher's Edition, an introductory page for each chapter outlines lesson objectives for each of the lessons in the chapter, and it also has lists of all other resources needed for the lesson from the "Teacher's Toolkit" CD.

Homeschool Kits include the Teacher's Edition with the CD-ROM, the Student Workbook, Student Manipulatives Packet, Reviews, Tests, and Tests Answer Key.

Math K5, third edition

BJUP's K5 math program is designed to build a foundation for understanding math concepts. . Manipulatives (e.g., Unifix Cubes and counters) play an important role in introducing new concepts at this level. The Student Materials Packet provides manipulatives for the student, although the Teacher's Edition offers suggestions for substitutes and make-it-yourself manipulatives.

The Home Teacher Packet contains essential teaching aids and worksheets used in the lessons. The Teaching Charts Flip Chart contains teaching charts. In addition to the student worktext, an optional activity book offers enrichment activities. The Math K5 Home School Kit includes all of the essential components.

Math 1, third edition

The first grade program teaches such concepts as place value, addition, subtraction, problem-solving, time, money, simple geometry, introduction of fractions, and interpreting simple graphs.

Manipulatives such as Unifix Cubes and counters play an important part in introducing new concepts, but these are not included in the Homeschool Kit. The Teacher's Edition offers suggestions for substitute and make-it-yourself manipulatives.

Math 2, third edition

The second grade level still uses manipulatives as a primary teaching tool. It continues with place value, addition, and subtraction (up through three-digit numbers), while also introducing multiplication (single-digit multipliers) and division. Two-step word problems, problem solving with information from graphs, probability, money and measurement are among other topics covered.

Math 3, third edition

Math 3 covers multiplication and division, covering math facts through the "10s." Students master their multiplication/division facts this year. Math 3 also does quite a bit of work with fractions and decimals. Lots of word problems help develop application skills. Manipulatives are still used, but they are included in the Homeschool Kit

Math 4, third edition

Students continue to use manipulatives throughout this course as they study multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, geometry, time, measurement, graphs, (including coordinate graphs), metric measurements, and positive and negative numbers.

Math 5, third edition

Math 5 reviews basic operations, expands work with fractions and decimals, and includes work on number concepts, (including positive and negative numbers), metric measurement, geometry (surface area and volume), ratios, proportions, percents, and working with data and graphs. The Student Manipulative Packet for grades 4 - 6 is required. An aviation theme is used throughout the text. The CD-ROM includes "Christian Worldview Shaping" instructions and activity pages; these activities relate to the chapter theme while bring a Christian worldview to bear on real life situations.

Math 6, second edition

Spiral bound Teacher's Editions are the core of the program. The student workbook is for practice and review of lessons taught from the TE. The TE does not include a CD-ROM. The Homeschool Kit includes Home Teacher's Edition, Home Teacher Packet, Student Text, Student Materials Packet, Tests, and Tests Answer Key.

In addition to the student workbook, there are separate student activity books for additional practice that are not included in the Home School Kit. A Reviews Activity Book provides cumulative review of both concepts and math facts. In addition, there are supplemental activity books for three different skill ability levels—Spread Your Wings is for the remedial student, Spring into Action is for the average student, and Stretch Your Mind challenges the advanced student. Each activity book has its own answer key. I think the remedial and advanced workbooks might be of interest, while the average student will have plenty of activity with the Reviews Activity Book. It is not necessary to purchase any activity books or to complete all pages in all of these resources.

Correlating and using all of the program components is more time consuming for the second edition than for the revised third editions.

Centered around the theme "Courage in Crisis," this course covers fractions, decimals, percent, ratio, probability, measurement, negative numbers, statistics, and use of both calculators and computers. Students continue to use manipulatives from the student materials packet that comes with the kit.