CTCMath has become our go 2 math program. Over the last few years we have reviewed many different levels of CTC and we have loved them all. CTCMath can be found by following this link https://www.ctcmath.com. We received a a 12-month Family membership which you can find by clicking here CTCMath. The family membership subscription is currently selling for $148.50 for homeschool families. This package allows you to use the program with multiple students making it a great budget friendly program for families with multiple children.
CTCMath is marketed as a complete math curriculum. This math curriculum is completely online. Your student will log in and view a lesson video. This video will give you student step by step instructions for each lesson. The videos are around 4-9 minutes in length depending on which lesson you are in. It seems as thought the higher the grade level the longer the video which makes since because the problems are more complex. They may watch the video lessons as many times as they wish. They can also pause, rewind and fast forward as needed. Once they have completed the video they will move on to completing interactive questions and worksheets. The interactive questions and worksheets are designed to test your child's understanding of concepts taught in the lesson. When you child submits an answer on the interactive questions the system logs the answer and stores the results for each student. As the teacher or parent you can then view and print a report of how they are doing. The student can attempt the interactive questions multiple times. Your student also has the ability to print a paper worksheet. For this your child sill complete the worksheet with pencil and paper the traditional way and then submit his or her answers into the program for grading. Once the solutions have been submitted a printable fully worked solutions becomes available to show every step that should have been taken to reach the correct answer. Something new that was added this year is called a one page summary. This is a single page summary that provides the student with concise and complete notes from the tutorial video. My girls love this new feature. We have taken a binder and made a CTC Math Notes binder to store all the summaries that they are printing off. Now they have something to go back to if they have trouble remembering how to do something down the road. On the teachers side of things the parent will find reports. There will be a report built for each of your students. Every lesson they attempt is logged and the results are compiled into a report along with statistical information that details when they passed a lesson. It tells you what they scored and how much time they used to pass that particular lesson. Also as the parent/teacher you can assign task to each student. You can use this as a way for you child to know what they need to work on each day or as a way to remind them they need to do a lesson over.
Since I reviewed Grade 6 not to long a go I thought we would take a look at Elementary Geometry and Elementary Measurement since each of the girls worked through these lessons for summer school. Both of these courses would last roughly a semester give or take how many days a week your student works and how quickly they master it.
Elementary Measurement has roughly 29 lessons in it. It covers lessons on parts of a circle, circumference of a circle, perimeter of a sector, finding a hypotenuse, finding a shorter side, composite prisms, volume of prisms, capacity, introduction to volume, area of Rhombus and Kites and many more.
Elementary Geometry has about 42 lessons in it. It covers topics like angle sum of a triangle, special triangles and their properties, mixed examples on angles, exterior angle of a triangle, test for congruent triangles, measuring angles, bisecting a line, bisecting an angle, constructing angles I and II, transformations, solid shapes, nets of solid shapes, faces vertices and edges.The girls seem to do ok with the video lessons most of them were easy enough to understand. The video part of the lesson is quick and we love that we can pause and rewind as needed. The interactive questions take them about 20 minutes give or take depending on how well they understood the lesson. The printable worksheets take them about another 15 min. I ask them to complete both the interactive questions on the computer as well as the printable worksheets. If they don't score well I will back track watch the lesson with them and we will try again with what ever additional explanation I can offer. If that still doesn't work we resort to an internet search for additional explanations which doesn't happen real often but we do need to do this from time to time. We would love a way to send a message to the instructor when we run into question or something we are just not understanding from the video.
I love the reports. We have been using CTC for several years now and each year is saved for me on my account. I can select which grade level I would like to view from the drop down for that student and bam it gives me all the stats for that level. Everything is downloadable and printable for long term storage. I will eventually download all of the girls scores for past years onto one flash drive. Since they work more independently now I use the reports to quickly tell me what they need to go back and work on a little more. It makes things efficient and I use less paper by being able to view scores and stats digitally.
