Does anyone know of a math curriculum designed for gifted students in elementary school? I am not interested in skipping him ahead grades. I am familiar with the 'normal' curriculums. . .so not that either. :love: But I know you gals have so many resources that I figured I'd ask. ;-)
not gifted but Horizon math is advanced I am told... and from what I can tell its a little there but not way ahead... there are websites that deal with gifted children. Does your child learn at an advanced level or quicker than average?
We use Math U See. The kids can work as fast or as slow as they need to. We supplement with logic, MindBenders, Sudoku and Word Ladders. We also do math in blocks. The whole week of MUS on Mondays and 2 lessons in logic on Thursdays. The kids don't need daily review and that frees up time for other things in the week. AM
I would suggest Singapore, Math U See or simply picking up a workbook on math and logic. My dd has one and loves it. There are many things you can do to enhance math rather than just moving him up. Try some puzzle and logic books...I got mine at the educational store. My dd would ask to do those.
http://www.movingbeyondthepage.com/?gclid=CIWHoP75vo4CFSc3YAodtA-pmw hey I got that from the list right at the end of this page ads by google?
Try getting some of the fun "extra's" that Bright Minds offers. http://www.brightminds.us/web/MarciaR The mind stumper type things work real nice for those kids. Brainteasers whatever you want to call them. I know Bright Minds has some neat ones. I have some books by mcGraw Hill but...they only list two on their website. hummmm HTH
I am using both Miquon and Singapore. However, Miquon only goes to 3rd grade, although they begin graphing algebraic equations by the last year. My daughter is about halfway through her first grade year, although that is difficult to say because when integrating the two it is difficult to know where we are for sure. A friend of mine is using Saxon and her child is just being introduced to some of the same concepts at the 2nd grade level. I really don't know how they compare in the upper grades. Here is a good resource for comparing math curricula: http://www.homeschoolmath.net/curriculum_reviews/
Not only that but the author of that site has some great curriculum herself. I use her Math Mammoth series. It's not grouped by grade but rather by topics so you can move through it as fast or slow as you want with no worry about grades.
Thanks girls. . .keep the ideas coming. . .but I guess maybe they don't write a curriculum for what I need. (I did like that link though teacher mom). I probably need to keep doing what I'm doing which is finding creative projects in applied math, physics and engineering type concepts. It's just lots of work--I'd like someone to write it all out for me. ;-)
Well when we first pulled dd from ps I googled "homeschool math for gifted studentes" and the first thing to pop up was Miquon. So we got it, and then I also found Singapore, and we got it. We are using both and dd loves both. Mindware also has some great math books. We have the Codebreakers Level A book and dd is doing them on her own and would do that book all day if I let her. www.mindwareonline.com A little pricey, but I've found you can easily work everything on the chalkboard/whiteboard and not write in the books.
Here is a link to a math reading list on Hoagies' Gifted. And here is a great FREE math program. It is not specifically for gifted kids but it does take a logic based approach to math. My third grader was quite challenged by the Year 1 stuff. My younger son (quite gifted in math) really liked it. For the higher level lessons you have to email them with a request for a password. It takes about a week or so to get it but they will send it to you. The biggest draw back (assuming you are in the US) is that it uses British money and metric measurement. If you are looking for a historical approach to math then check out Livingmath.net. It is historical applied math with lots of literature selections to choose from. I have a number of math links on my website. You might find some resources there. Nothing curriculum-ish but some fun sites to play around on. AM
THANK YOU for that free site. That was great and exactly the type of thing I'm looking for. I'm not sure it'll be super challenging for him but it's just a different approach. It also occurred to me to look into the math olympiad and see how we can get him involved in that. (duh?!) LOVE Hoagie's gifted page. I feel at 'home' there. I think hsing a child that is gifted is sometimes as difficult and presents similar challenges to hsing a child who has special needs. I am so hoping to hear her speak this year. And I'm going to go check out that historical math thing. Hadn't really occured to me to teach that way. He's very interested in engineering and so I'm thinking of spending the money on the k'nex sets. (Ouch--those are pricey.)
Lego also had educational sets. I don't think they are any cheaper than Knex but at least another option.
http://www.hsunlimited.com/worksheets/worksheets.php try this link from the site someone posted above I got to this, well http://www.hsunlimited.com/worksheets/worksheets.php may be what you want.. oh its same, LOl! Anyway you generate your worksheets for free here? Lots of subject matter listed.
Froggurami that website is a LOT like Singapore. Makes me wonder if that's where they got their stuff from. They're year 3 is more like Singapores 1st grade.
Do you know how completelt awesome you are? I had that link for the British math curriculum and lost it and the livingmath.net look like it's exactly what I need to help connect our math to Catherine's favourite subject, history. Thank you!
I found this the other day - I think they look pretty hard, maybe it will be of some use to you. They are applied math projects http://wcvt.com/~tiggr/index.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/geometry/model.html
