Triad Math - Tier 3

 

Today, thanks to new amazing 21st Century technologies, there is a Six Tier Math Program that homeschool parents can deliver to their children that is vastly superior from other online or video-based math programs. For only $29 per month, you get unlimited access to Tiers 1-6 and this includes enrollment for your entire family! Each lesson includes a pre-test, printable notes, a video lesson, printable exercises, and a post-test. In Tier 3, Dr. Del presents the following math curriculum:

SAT Prep

This course, divided into three parts, prepares students for the SAT. Part 1 relies heavily upon George F. Simmons’ textbook, Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell, and covers real numbers, polynomials, linear equations, the quadratic equation, inequalities, functions, graphs, straight parallel, perpendicular lines, and other topics. Part 2 covers additional topics seen on the SAT, including percentages, markups and discounts, means, medians, and averages, as well as ratios, logic, progressions, series, probabilities, permutations, and combinations. Part 3 deals with preparation for the test itself – how often you should practice, get a good night’s sleep before the test, etc. This part also contains many practice problems so that your student will be familiar with the types of questions the test may ask.

The student is expected to work along with Dr. Del while watching the video and fill in the notes provided with that video. Then the student works exercises until they understand the topic. In math, you either understand it or you don’t. There is no such thing as sort of understanding it. This takes time and repetition which varies for each student. This is why self-pacing is critically indispensable. The student then takes a short quiz to verify they understand the topic. Then they move on to the next topic. And, all of this is recorded in the student’s record which you can review any time. If a student works hard and watches the video at least three times and still cannot understand the topic, then Dr. Del will give the student an online tutoring session, or create a supplementary video on that topic. There is no extra charge for this. His goal is for any student to succeed and excel in this Six Tier Math Program!

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Book-by-Book Bible Breakdowns - Crew Review

 

Disclaimer: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew.

Teach Sunday School offers a wide variety of Bible study tools such as the Book-by-Book Bible Breakdowns. To better understand the Bible, we should study in context each passage and these Bible Breakdowns help us dig deeper with a chapter-by-chapter view of each book in the Bible.

For this review, I was given Bible Breakdowns for the Old Testament and the New Testament. Both provide breakdowns of classic Bible stories with the Bible reference for specific chapter and verse. Each page, or book of the Bible, contains the following information:

·         Number of chapters in the book.

·         Type of book.

·         Date the book was written.

·         Time period the book covers.

·         Author of the book.

·         Breakdown of the book.

·         Popular verses in the book.

These Bible Breakdowns have been a great learning tool for our family. We have used these sheets to study different passages of interest, checking off each box as we complete the study. We simply read the passage aloud and had a family discussion of each passage. I do like how the sheets provide a list of the most popular verses within each book, and think this would be a great tool for working on Bible memory verses within each book.

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Using Literature to Teach about World War II in Middle School

 

Many of us use a curriculum to teach history; but using literature to teach history can be a great teaching tool. I am continuing this history literature series with some of the best books to teach about World War II. Using literature to teach history illuminates the time period, helps integrate the history curriculum, and enriches social studies. With my love for literature and history, it only makes sense to combine the two, so I have gathered some of my favorite books that teach about World War II in middle school.

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is an unforgettable Newbery-winning novel. A ten-year-old Danish girl’s bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943. As the German troops begin their campaign to relocate all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz is based on an astonishing true story to survive at any cost. 10 concentration camps, 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It’s something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally away from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner – his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing hope, his will, and most of all, his sense of who he really is inside?

World War II Heroes by Allan Zullo is a Ten True Tales Series that tells ten true stories of real-life heroes from World War II. Pfc. Jack Lucas, just a teenager, is on patrol on Iwo Jima when two grenades land at his feet. Can he save his comrades lives? Lt. Col. James Rudder and his Rangers are climbing a 100-foot-high cliff on a secret D-Day mission. Can they survive the Nazi’s devastating firepower? Sgt. Forrest Volser is blinded and wounded from an attack by German fighter planes on his crippled bomber. Can he make it home? The world was saved by these and many more real-life heroes. You will never forget their incredible true stories.

World War II Profiles Series #2 by Aaron Rosenberg includes six bios in one! It takes more than one person to bring about change and innovation. Find out how key players from yesterday and today influenced and interacted with each other during some of the world’s most memorable periods. So much more than just your typical biography, Profiles focuses on six of the most prominent figures during World War II – FDR, Churchill, Eisenhower, Hitler, Stalin, and Hirohito.

These are only a few of my favorite books that teach about World War II, there are so many more out there! Feel free to share in the comments what you consider the best book to teach about World War II in middle school.

Happy Homeschooling!