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Christian Home School Curriculum

The world that we are in life, is a kind of modern and it is confusing for our children. There are so many ideas and images, stretched that even we will be able to get confused and uncertain. There is one sure way that your children to a normal life, and she with a strong moral background shall guide.
If you choose one of these programs, you have to see which would study the properties of these curricula are most appropriate for your child.
For these reasons, the choice of a Christian Homeschooling Curriculum that is flexible and many different levels of study will give this spiritual impulse. In addition, it should grow issues where an interest in studies. Since there There can be many different types of Christian home curriculum programs that you want these many opportunities, with the youngster debate.

Even through the Talk with your children, you can make sure that they understand what school is at home.
There are several Christian School at home programs where each part of your child's life is divided into sections. In these separate sections of your child when learning becomes such that they these teachings in their minds Wear as they age. In the first Section of learning the building blocks for a good life are determined.

These first steps that you learn your child, and phonetics can provide the foundations of mathematics. This lesson can be expanded with chapters from the Bible and inspirational stories.
Once you chose the appropriate curriculum, can You start referring your Kid's Tutorial development. This way you can ensure that the various curricula and creative play time benefit your child. The addition of real life stories and various biblical messages to improve their studies.
As with all types of education, you have the Christian home curriculum help your child learn the will. The faith and the moral lessons of the program, let your boys grow up and live a fulfilled life as a good Christian voters. For this to To reach your love, support and assistance needed. The choice of the good Christian home curriculum programs is also terribly helpful in the early past Years.

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Dive into Algebra 1 closely follows Saxon’s Algebra 1 THIRD Edition. This CD should NOT be used as a stand-alone product. It should ONLY be used WITH Saxon’s Algebra 1 or the students will lack the practice drills and the tests that come with the printed kit and are not likely to improve significantly.

Having taught my kids Saxon’s Math since Math 3/2, I decided to order our Algebra 1 with the CD with the hope of saving some time – I tend to go ‘long’ when I teach. I wasn’t disappointed. Allowing Prof. David E. Shormann to do the teaching does save time and his insistence that the students copy everything that he writes on the blackboard – blueboard, really – keeps them focused on the lesson. The teaching of the lesson taking only 20 minutes makes the kids happy and leaves them with more energy left to tackle the practice questions and the 30-questions problem set (known as ‘mixed practice’ in the pre-algebra Saxon math books) that comes with each of the lessons.

Contrary to the claim made on the CD’s cover, these lessons are NOT interactive. They can’t be because they are recorded on a CD and the teacher can’t take questions and answer them and the students don’t interact with the computer either, they only listen to the lesson, take notes and do some practice exercises on paper. I was also surprised to see this product being marketed as Algebra taught from a ‘Christian’ point of view. There is very little that’s specifically Christian about Shormann’s teaching other than him stating in the introduction that he is a Christian. He is only following the Saxon math book, paragraph by paragraph and he is doing a good job expressing it in a way that is more dynamic that simply reading the text.

In addition to the lessons, Shormann includes a suggested syllabus which may be helpful to some.

The following are, in my view, the good things about this product:

- Very helpful for students not yet comfortable with individual study.

- The requirement that students take notes by copying what they see on the board is a good step toward them learning to take notes independently.

- Saves time and adds teaching expertise in a home schooling environment. I’ve been teaching my kids math for 6 years already and I still welcome this product.

- Allows me the opportunity to stop and expand and/or rewind when necessary.

- Full contents can be easily copied to run off the hard disk but the disk comes with no specific instructions on how to do it.

Now, for the not so good, I I may repeat what I already stated in the paragraphs above:

- The Macromedia Flash Player platform does not take over the full screen. On my 1680×1050 display, less than 1/4th is occupied by the presentation and there is no way to expand it.

- The technology used to develop the material is rather crude. All students get is the teacher’s voice and the notes he makes on the board by hand. I list this as a ‘not so good’ but I don’t see it as as big negative. Simplicity is sometimes preferable to a more elaborate and distracting sensory overload method but there may be some area where better graphics may help.

- The teacher is sometimes inconsistent in his presentation with the words he’s using. For example, he reminds the students that, when ’saying’ a number you only use ‘and’ when you see the ‘comma’ separating the integer part from the decimals but then he keeps saying ‘two hundred AND two’ instead of ‘two hundred two’. I understand that it takes a big effort to cover 123 lessons but maybe a ‘take two’ on some of the lessons would improve quality and consistency.

- No true interactivity. I am not so sure if a more interactive approach would help the students learn more but, at least the interactivity claim should not be used as a marketing tool.

- While it does encourage the students to take notes, the audio-visual presentation will make them less likely to actually use the printed book.

- As I mentioned already, those who expect this to be math taught from a Christian perspective may be disappointed. This is not Christian math and I don’t see it as a bad thing. Math is non-denominational as far as I can tell and the claim should not be made.

To conclude, I found this CD to be a welcome addition to the printed material. It makes my job easier and it makes the kids happier. I would NOT use this CD alone – without the book and the tests. The printed book has lesson practice exercises and a 30-question problem set attach to each lesson. The problem sets are essential to Saxon’s incremental method and without them the students aren’t likely to learn much. In addition, the printed kit includes the tests and an answers book. They are all needed.

I will grant this product 4 stars, mostly because of the few misleading marketing claims. This CD can stand on its own merits. It does not need hype because it has substance.
Rating: 4 / 5