They are an evangelical Christian company that incorporates bible teachings into a lot of lessons, though certainly not all. So much about this company impressed me, like: If you read my 2020-2021 curriculum choices for kindergarten and first grade, we decided to try out Masterbooks for math, language arts, and science. It includes teaching tips, how to adapt the course for different learning styles, recipes from all the levels, and how to use manipulatives. However there is a teacher’s companion you can buy once used for all levels. Books are cheap! You’ll pay around $35-40 per level or “year”.There are 7 levels, K-6 (not necessarily equal to grade levels), so if this fits you can use it all throughout elementary.(Though in my experience 10-15 is more accurate). Lessons say they take 15-30 minutes each day.Math Lessons For A Living Education blends Charlotte Mason philosophy of short story based lessons, copywork, oral narration (retelling what they understand), and hands on real life math.It’s The opposite of math programs that are simply pages of drills.It just uses a different approach than many curriculums. I hesitated to write this review because I don’t want it to sound like Masterbooks is “less than”. There is SO much about Masterbooks math that I love. Math Lessons For A Living Education Review: What makes it different from other math curriculums? If I don’t love the switch, we’ll be back using Masterbooks because my kids are learning and doing well with it. This is my opinion as it relates to my kids’ learning styles, and includes everything I love about this math curriculum and also why I have decided to try something else mid year. I also filmed a flip through of level 1 and level 2 on YouTube which I’ve linked below. We used level 1 for kindergarten and level 2 for 1st grade. As we near the middle of our school year, I thought it would be really helpful to give you an in depth review of Math Lessons For A Living Education (MLFALE) for level 1 & 2.
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