"Singapore Math" Method?

[dakat]

We are doing Singapore Math at home with my 5 y.o.
That is something I would strongly advice to the parents who don't know how to teach their children Maths (just  like me:))
We have already finnished the EarlyBirds books A and B, which are for pre-schoolers and are now doing Standart Maths for grade 1.
Of course, it would be great to have a school using this method, but unfortunately we don't have one in our city. So the books are working well for us.
My son loves the activities suggested there and  the manipulatives that come with the books.
you can do a search on youtube and see how the lessons are conducted. It's lots of fun for both children and teachers:)

[linzy]

We have been using it for a while with my youngest who turned 5 in October. He is finishing 2B after this level we will either have him do level three or transition him over to Saxon 4/5 (which is the program his older brother does, and we plan to use through calculus). It has been very helpful in developing mental math skills and number sense, which is something I feel like we could have done better with for his older brother.

[mom2bee]

Linzy, do you use the Home Instructors Guide with Singaporean Math? Which books from the program do you use?
As I understand it, there are a bunch of small books that make up each level of the program.

Textbook A and B
workbook A and B
Home Instructor's Guide A and B
Intensive Practice A and B
Extra Practice A and B
Challenging Word Problems (No A and B books)
Assessment books A and B.

Which ones do you use with your LO? I doubt that many EL parents would do assessments with their LOs just because of the nature of the student but still, inquiring minds want to know and I figure it'll be easier for you to NOT forget to mention something if I put it all up there.
I know that some people say that you NEED the HIG to do Singapores PM correctly, unless you have had "Asian Math" yourself, yet I think you've mentioned a couple of times that your younger son has a number sense from using PM that your older son doesn't have, right?

[linzy]

For early bird we just did the workbooks. For level A we did the textbook and workbooks. The text books add quite a few extra problems with pictures which was helpful in explaining new concepts. In level 2 we added the HIG. It tells you what text pages to do with which workbook pages, it offers ways to explain new concepts with manipulatives, it suggests games to help with fact memorization and mental math strategies. It also and has mental math worksheets to do most days. I find it helpful, is it "necessary"? No you could certainly just use the other 2 books, but I do like the mental math strategies and mental math worksheets.  My son does have great number sense and so we haven't needed the extra practice book. Often he will choose to do 2 lessons a day. At this point we are just trying to decide if he should move on to Saxon after 2b or do level 3. He completely understands addition, subtraction multiplication and division. He has the mult/div facts memorized through the 6's and uses skip counting to calculate the rest. So, we may just put him through to so on do as to not hold him back, although I do like the mental math skills he's gained in Singapore.

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