RightStart Mathematics uses the AL Abacus to provide a visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experience. The elementary and intermediate program lessons guide the teacher day-by-day and year-by-year, helping children understand, apply, and enjoy mathematics while surpassing state standards.
The AL Abacus is grouped in fives and tens for quick recognition of quantities. Children develop visual strategies as they use this manipulative. The back side of the AL Abacus teaches place value to the thous...Learn More
RightStart Mathematics uses the AL Abacus to provide a visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experience. The elementary and intermediate program lessons guide the teacher day-by-day and year-by-year, helping children understand, apply, and enjoy mathematics while surpassing state standards.
The AL Abacus is grouped in fives and tens for quick recognition of quantities. Children develop visual strategies as they use this manipulative. The back side of the AL Abacus teaches place value to the thousands.
Practice is provided with math card games, minimizing review worksheets and stressful flash cards, presenting a variety of repetition, and creating hours of fun learning math facts and concepts. Understanding and problem solving are emphasized throughout the curriculum. (From the publisher's website).
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This program is very teacher intensive. It is a fun program to teach and much of the learning is accomplished through games.
Delightful
This program incorporates elements of all learning styles. My children enjoy the games and math is becoming a highlight of the day.
Written by Karen Davis
Great math program for right brained learners
I found Rightstart Math while searching for a program to use with my youngest child who is a very right brained (visual spatial) learner. R...
Great math program for right brained learners
I found Rightstart Math while searching for a program to use with my youngest child who is a very right brained (visual spatial) learner. Rightstart uses a special simplified abacus to help children "see" numbers as quantities. The program also incorporates singing, workpages, tally sticks and other manipulatives, and lots of games to instill mathematical concepts on a deep level. I was so impressed with it after seeing a demonstration at a local conference that I decided to also take 11 year old back through the program as well as she had started to hit that "math wall" with what we were previously doing and I want her to understand the concepts more completely.
Rightstart has levels that go up through Intermediate math which includes geometry. It is hard to correlate this with an exact grade but at that point the company recommends going into Videotext Algebra so it covers all of the math the student needs previous to that. There is a homeschool forum at the Rightstart Math website as well as a yahoo group that is very helpful.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RightStart/