Preschool Math Curriculum Comparison
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2022
- I compare a couple of preschool math curriculum popular among homeschoolers. These are Preschool Math at Home, Dimensions Pre K (Singapore Math), and The Critical Thinking Co: Mathematical Reasoning Beginning 1. I also briefly mention a few kindergarten math curriculum that are often used for preschoolers: Rightstart Math, Saxon Math, Math U See, Montessori Math, and any Do It Yourself DIY Math activities you might come up with.
Remember, in the preschool age ranges, Play is Primary!
More videos please! I love your channel.
Such a detailed video that I don't see often done this way for younger grades. Well Done!
I just watced your Singapore Teacher Guide vs Home Instructor comparison and loved it. I was excited to see you did this review as well.
My son is 3 and we've gone through Mathematical Reasoning 1 and Preschool at Math at Home. We are currently using Kindergarten Math with Confidence and Reasoning 2. I would really love to switch him to dimensions, but his age and the rigor is holding me back. He is active and we "do school" when he finds himself bored. After watching this and your other video, I think we may be ready. Thank you for sharing.
Which level of Singapore are you thinking of switching him to? Is he able to do those Logic puzzles in the critical thinking books? The preK and K levels of the critical thinking books definitely have more complicated challenges than Singapore Dimensions preK and K. The Challenges come in at Dimensions 1, but it’s with a ton of repetition from what was done in K, so it hasn’t actually been challenging for my 4.5 year old who fully mastered the content from level K.
Math With Confidence is a very good curriculum, but doesn’t have any challenges from my thorough read through of MWC K and 1. I would totally consider doing Math With Confidence for scope and sequence and adding in Beast Academy for rigor later, but I’m happy with my Dimensions/ Right start combination at the moment, so I’m not switching.
Rightstart is amazing for young bright kids if you haven’t checked that out! I really do need to make more rightstart content because we love it.
@Simply Cece My original plan was to have him go through MWC and Mathematical Reasoning until he was ready for Beast Academy. He is young and active, and his brain works faster than his hand, so we chose this combination for minimal handwriting/ worksheet work.
He can complete almost 98% of Mathematical Reasoning on his own, only repeating two Can You Find Me puzzles.
As for Singapore, I think we will start in KB after Beginning 2 and KMWC. Or do you think we should start at KA? I do not think Right Start would be a good fit for our family at this time.
Thank you for asking about Singapore about the Dimensions e-books. This would be amazing. Thank you for this channel. Very help!
@@HunterHomeschool you’re welcome! I’ve learned a lot about dimensions and still love it for my kids. Feel free to ask any questions!
You speak sooooo well!!!!! Although he's not an engineer, My husband would appreciate your spreadsheet. Best way to lay it all out!
Thank you so much for this video. I’m an expectant mother but I’m super passionate about math and this video is phenomenal. You make me want to go out and get everything in this video.
I realize this video is older, but a couple of months ago I was looking for reviews of Dimensions PK and I so wish I would have seen this video first. It would have saved me so much time!!
I absolutely love this video! Thank you for taking the time to make it.
I need to do a stand-alone review of the preK and Kindergarten levels since we’ve done them completely. We are in level 1 now and still love Dimensions math!
Your curriculum reviews are awesome! I am currently using Preschool Math at Home with my two and three year old. They love it, even though my two year old does wander off from time to time. I work full-time so I love it too because I am able to do a quick lesson with them in the morning and to them it's like a quick game. I've heard about Mathematical Reasoning and after your review I think I will pick up 1 and 2 up just to offer more of a challenge to my three year old. I've heard good things about both Dimensions and Saxon but not sure if it would work for us because of our schedule. Just curious, do you have your own binding machine?
Thanks for your kind words :) I have a proclick binding machine. I got it in 2021 for $99, but now I see it's $140 on amazon :( I do love it though! I don't love the proclick coils (like are shown in the video), but I learned that I can just use regular coils with the proclick holes and it works just fine! Dimensions is a conceptual math (similar to what's in common core) and Saxon is a procedural math (traditional), so two very different, but highly effective, methodologies. Both are on the higher end for parental time commitment in the lower levels.
I just uploaded my preschool curriculum video and I didn’t even add in math😮💨 this video is so thorough thank you so much for sharing! New sub!
Thank you!
EXCELLENT, CeCe! I love your comparison! So detailed!
Thank you!
I have a reading curriculum comparison coming up soon as well! 100 easy lessons, Logic of English, and all about reading are the features with a few minor notes about some other curriculum :)
Thanks for stopping by!
with my 5yo we started with the K math with confidence (goes after preschool math at home) but it just wasn't interesting to him even though he really likes numbers. We switched to dimensions K for him and he LOVES it. My 3.5 yo wants to do his own school work so I'm thinking when he turns four I'll start preschool dimensions.
Yeah. MWC K was a joke for my 5yo at age 4 and he hated it. I got 2nd grade math with confidence for my son when he wasn’t even 5.5. It was all very easy… still far too easy…. and he truly was not being challenged in a good way and didn’t find the math pages interesting at all although he did like the games and activities much more than the stuff in MWC k…but he likes any games… I just need to do a dimensions game or hands on activity 2-3 times a week and he’s totally happy with it.
He did dimensions 1B and was fully engaged and appropriately challenged. He loves the worksheets because the problems are “interesting” (his words) AND he can do them independently (he’s a fluent reader). He’s 5.5 now and starting Dimensions 2A in the fall (we are talking a summer break and probably finishing rightstart B in between).
My 2 (nearly 3) year old just started dimensions PreK last week and he couldn’t be happier to have his own math books that look just like his brothers. Surprisingly, my older son LOVES that they can now do math “together”. Dimensions PreKA is VERY basic and a perfect intro. Every single thing in it repeats in K, and again, repeats very quickly in 1A for a third time so I’m okay if he doesn’t grasp it all on the first pass, but they present it so well that he probably will grasp the new stuff. It is very important to have the mastery of those repeated topics by dimensions 1A though because it escalates quickly and might feel like a slog if you’re spending time mastering things.
@@simplycece yes! Math with confidence was too easy! We're in 1a for kindergarten in dimension and he is really enjoying it. He's been fighting reading pretty hard and I've jumped around curriculum. Doing the teach your child to read in a 100 easy lessons then maybe trying all about reading 1 again. I was hyperlexic so teaching my kid to read who's meh about it is interesting. But he's ADHD/ODD . My 3.5 yo I'm going to start doing the pk dimensions with at 4 and stretching it out until he's kindergarten age.
Great review, very helpful ☺️
Thank you!
Thank you so much. Love the video and all the insight. I'm curious as to where can I find the numbers booklets of writing without tears. Can't seems to find them.
Thank you
You can buy this a lot of places. Put in the google search bar “learning without tears I know my numbers”.
www.rainbowresource.com/060934.html
@@simplycece thank you so much for helping me out.
Love this video. I’m starting my homeschool journey with a third grader and a preschooler this year and I’m between Dimensions and Right start Math. I see in your comments that you do both. Of the two which one would you recommend the most. I’m thinking of supplementing either of those with beast academy.
@@viviangarcia4070 lol. All three. Ha. Depends on the kid though. Do they like worksheets, do they like conversation, do they a LOT of tricky problems?
For my 5 year old, Dimensions 2A is our primary math, because it’s more independent and he loves to do it without me. He is not always in the mood for back and forth conversation about “stuff he knows” (like the scripted rightstart lesson), but he has no problem doing review on a worksheet. We do rightstart on request, which is still pretty regularly, but I let him dictate when the lesson is finished. He usually does many lessons at a time, but he doesn’t ask for it every week. He loves when we do it sparingly, but he would get burnt out on it if we did it daily. Beast academy is his supplementary math. I think eventually, this will become his primary math instead of dimensions…. Maybe. He truly loves the “tricky” beast problems but he doesn’t like the monster characters or for me to read him the comics. I think he’ll grow out of that though and then we will switch.
For my 3 year old, I THINK one day rightstart will be his primary math with beast as a supplement until he can handle beast type of problems… Only time will tell, but I don’t think he will have the love for worksheets that my older son has. Another thing I’m considering for him is math with confidence + beast as both primary for this child once he’s 6 or 7.
Currently at age three I’m having him do all of the curriculum in this video and he loves all of them. We’re starting with mathematical reasoning and preschool math at home, and will focus on dimensions preK when he’s finished, although he occasionally does some dimensions preKA when he wants to do a book like his brother.
@@simplycece wow thank you for your answer. My oldest doesn’t like worksheets and this last year he was at a private school and he did Abeka. He manage pretty well did great in terms of grades but I wanted to do the switch to a more conceptual math because I noticed Abeka doesn’t teach him the why of things. I know Singapore is a solid program but from what you are saying maybe right start math and beast academy are a better combination for him since he doesn’t like the worksheets. I guess I was just afraid that right start wasn’t as solid as dimensions.
If he did well with abeka but doesn’t love worksheets, rightstart and beast might are probably a better fit. They’re totally doable together especially if you do beast online at a lower grade level…. So minimum worksheets.
Rightstart is a very geometric approach though. I love it but it’s not for everyone! I’d try to find some videos showing rightstart lessons in progress to be sure.
I loved this review of dimensions singapore math. I am so interested in Dimensions Pre-k.. I am also inclined towards Rightstart maths but I dont like the manipulatives that I have to buy, its so expensive. did you do Right Start maths with your child along with dimensions pre-k?
I did preschool math at home and dimensions preK. I did Rightstart A and dimensions K. We did Dimensions 1A then rightstart B. We are still working in rightstart B alongside Dimensions 1B for my son who is 5 years and 4 months right now. We like the combo a lot. He does Dimensions workbooks mostly independently except a few of the challenges problems that I need to be there to set up manipulatives or printouts for. We do the rightstart lessons together. We are able to use rightstart manipulatives for our dimensions lessons when they’re needed. The only extra manipulative i use often that are not part of rightstart are two color counters (can be easily handmade) and linking cubes (not really necessary though) and dice (needed but can diy this with paper).
Thank you so much for sharing this, you are awesome...I love how you did it... I like how right start is hands on maths and dimensions is great too, my daughter is 3.5 years and we completed the MTS preschool math, Jady A preschool math book. did you do right start and dimensions same week or did you finish first one and then started the other@@simplycece
@@ankitagaur3945 I didn’t have a strict schedule. In dimensions preKA-KA, my son just wanted to do pages and pages at a time. The numbers writing increased a lot between KB and 1A, which slowed him down to a normal pace. His brain is still ahead on the math, but his hands are just now able to write for extended periods of time, so he’s back wanting to do extra pages again. Back then, I was kind of child led with it. He’d pick which math he wanted to do and sometimes he’d just want to do dimensions all day and others he’d want to do rightstart. Often both. Sometimes neither. I didn’t push it. We moved slower in rightstart because he’d get to a part of the lesson he really likes, and want to spend more time on it. Since he’s so young and ahead, I didn’t have any pressure to stay on schedule, so I’d let him continue with whatever math activity we like for a long time, so we might not finish a rightstart lesson in one day. This still happens sometimes, although now, if I can predict that about an activity, I’ll move things around in the lesson so that the exciting part will be at the end. I also do dimensions a little differently to, we don’t do that book in order. I’m planning to post a video about it soon.