My husband brought home the Sunday comics from work after reading the following Baby Blues strip.

Baby Blues

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

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If that doesn’t sum up our ten year old son perfectly, I don’t know what does!

Especially the hanging upside down in the chair.

Just received this in my inbox, a great deal on SOS math resources.

Make math the best subject you teach! Save 12% on select AOP math resources through 9/9/09 with coupon code NTMATHSALE!

Discount applies to the following products:

2009 SOS Consumer Math
Is your student ready to do his personal finances? Get Switched-On Schoolhouse Consumer Math for grades 9-12, and he will! Informative topics included in this one-year course are money management skills, avoiding financial problems, examining loans and credit cards, and practicing wise purchase habits. Pre-requisite is Algebra I. Includes quizzes and tests. Retail price: $76.95

2009 SOS Essentials of Math
Polish your homeschooler’s basic math skills with Switched-On Schoolhouse Essentials of Math for grades 8-12! A great refresher, this computer-based, seven-unit elective includes fun learning games and multimedia, as well as tests and quizzes that are perfect for reinforcing fundamental mathematic concepts. Retail price: $46.95

2009 SOS Trigonometry
Want to get your teen ready for college math? Then, you need Switched-On Schoolhouse Trigonometry for grades 9-12! This one-semester, computer-based course covers topics like right angle trigonometry, trigonometric identities, graphing, the laws of sines and cosines, and polar coordinates. Pre-requisite is Algebra II. Includes quizzes and tests. Retail price: $46.95

If you have been wanting to try any of the above math programs, I hope the discount code helps save you some money

If you do use any of these, please let me know what you think of them.

Audio Memory puts math facts to music, singing tables in echo style. Each song is different and is repeated with a pause before answers are provided, for self-testing. Each kit includes a reproducible workbook.

32-minute track teaches from 2×2 to 12×12.

Homeschool Moms Review

To help my oldest learn her times tables, I ordered Multiplication Songs by Audio Memory on CD. This is fantastic! I pop in the CD during math time as background noise. She was able to pick up hr tables quickly without even realizing she was learning. As an added bonus, so did her brother.

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Everyone studying math needs this book, and it is an essential study guide when preparing for exams. Over 500 definitions of all the key terms and concepts. More than 300 useful illustrations and diagrams. Over 100 worked examples. Comprehensive cross-referencing and detailed index.

Earned the Learning Magazine 2008 Teachers’ Choice Award for the Family.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

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The Quarter Mile programs are extremely effective because they motivate students to do an incredible amount of math practice in a short period of time with very focused topics.

Topics: Grades K-9 (Ages 5 to 15)
Users: Pre-K to Adult
Seven different programs

The award winning format is…

• self-competitive
• able to detect the smallest improvements and give positive reinforcement
• non-intimidating and non-age-specific
• appropriate for both genders
• as effective for students with special needs as it is for accelerated students
• perfect for kindergartners and adults

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For 30 years, the Miquon Math Materials have offered children a friendly invitation to the world of mathematics. Based on the belief that mathematical insight grows out of observation, investigation, and the discovery of patterns, the six workbooks of the Miquon Math Materials lead children through an exploration of mathematical relationships. Concrete models are not supplements to the written work but instead are the basis of it and are used continuously.

The Miquon Math Materials were developed by Lore Rasmussen at the Miquon School in Pennsylvania. Originally tested in 150 classrooms, Miquon Math has since been used by thousands of children and their teachers.

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Building an understanding of fundamental Math concepts is essential for a student to move on and conquer more advanced math and science. Understanding addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and percents is absolutely critical. If a student doesn’t master these topics early on, it can lead to the “Math Is Hard” syndrome. The core philosophy of this 7 hour DVD course is that “Math Is Easy”. The way that you make math easy for a student is to start off with the basics and gradually move on to the tougher material. This builds confidence in his or her skills and confidence is the key to success in math. The 1st – 7th Grade Math Tutor is a 7 hour, 2 DVD course that will fully help a student master all of the core topics in math at the first through seventh grade level. After mastering the concepts in this DVD series the student will be ready and able to move and tackle pre-algebra and algebra.

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