If anyone wants to “afterschool” their children/grandchildren in math the old fashioned way, I highly recommend Rod & Staff Math. It is a Menonite pubication that teaches real arithmatic. I taught my kids the first grade book in pre-k and Kindergarten and then went on from there.
“If anyone wants to “afterschool” their children/grandchildren in math the old fashioned way, I highly recommend Rod & Staff Math.”
Yep, I took the afterschooling route too, using Saxon Math in my case. You have to have the correct mindset for it though, and understand that at least through grade school, if not through middle school, the ONLY subjects ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for kids to learn are reading and math, and thus prioritize them over everything else (including after school sports, for example, or piano, or even history or science). If you have time left over after teaching reading and math, then you can move on to other stuff (like sports or piano), but you have to prioritize.
(and no, don’t believe Big Piano, playing piano doesn’t help a kid learn math - being taught math properly and doing problems is how kids learn math)
Also, the old Saxon Math, the editions with the hardcovers.
The newer ones, the soft cover books, were said to be not as good as they also changed the curriculum when they went to soft cover.
We used Rod and Staff for reading, phonics, and English.
Fantastic stuff and their reading program is very solidly based on the Bible.