Posted by Judy in WA on 10:26 Jan 17
In Reply to: Has anyone taken a look at Life of Fred? I'm curious as to what the folks on the accelerated board think of it. We are about to start Horizons 6 and I'm trying to decide where to go. TIA nt posted by Kimber
My dd...what a challenge. She likes to mix things up. I think we have tried every math program out there. She has spent the most time with MUS. I like it because it is clearly presented and thorough but my dd finds it mind-numbingly boring.
In an effort to find something that she would actually do, I picked up LOF. It has been a huge success. Of course the first thing she did was read the book cover to cover. She even took the book to bed with her!!
Now she is working through the book chapter by chapter. She is learning more than she ever has because she likes it. The book is engaging, challenging, and (as with all the LOF books) it's "as serious as it needs to be".
So far in Decimials and Percents, she has covered:
Number systems (including base 20)
Adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing decimals
metric system
Pi, radius
Functions
Sets
Rules of divisibility (for 5, 2, 9 and 3)
changing fractions to decimals (and vice versa)
repeating and non-repeating never ending decimals
Bar graphs, Pie charts
Prime Numbers and the Goldbach Conjecture
Area of a circle
She has completed just over half of the lessons.
I was nervous about LOF too. Probably because it doesn't look like a traditional text book. But I guess that's what we need right now - A math book that doesn't look like a math book.
I am happy with what she is learning. It seems to encourage a creativity in math that other books do not. I have been impressed and awed by some of the elegant solutions my dd has come up with to solve math problems from this book.