Customer Reviews

October 4, 2023

Robert H.

To whomever may read this, For more than 10 years now as a home-school teacher, my wife and I have struggled greatly w/teaching math to our five children (they range in age (now) from age 6 to 16). This became especially difficult when they got into fractions and beyond. Until this point, it has always seemed unnecessarily difficult to keep each child on track, improving, and moving forward in a clear, confident-inspiring way (for them as a student AND for me as their math teacher). My point here is that despite using several other more expensive, and highly-recommended math programs, and despite the fact that I too am very strong in higher-level mathematics (which is why I took on teaching our children math in the first place), it always baffled me as to how difficult it was (it seemed then) for them to actually comprehend and retain what they were taught. And when you juggle three different grade levels of math (each of my older children is 1 year behind the other), this inherently made my job much more difficult in tracking each child's individual progress throughout the year. This one subject had nearly become my day job. This is no longer the case, thanks to this LMF curriculum. This new curriculum almost immediately proved to be a game changer. My first "best-friend" in the program was the placement test. Although a simple and somewhat brief test, after each of my three older children took the placement test, it immediately opened my eyes to each child's individual weak points. Thus, I was able to not only immediately focus on strengthening said weak area but using the math books, I was able to move them forward, incredibly quickly, to higher-level math. My oldest daughter for example, truly hated math by the end of last year. She had become so frequently flustered and confused that just lost interest in math. Yet this year, after using these materials for a somewhat brief time (only a month or so), and addressing her weak areas first, she almost immediately moved right back into her grade-appropriate math level but almost more importantly, actually told me that she is really enjoying math this year. This is evident not only in her face but as she turns in her algebra work to me, 95% of the time, she gets 100% of the problems correct. It helps of course, that she no longer struggles w/multiplying and dividing fractions (which she did struggle w/horribly by the end of last year) and undoing that damage, only took one week to correct, using the preceding workbook (and clear methods to solve such problems) to catch her up. I'm quite honestly amazed at how all three of my older children are succeeding in math this year, using the same set of materials. This ability to use the same set for all children btw, is made possible only because of the incredible amount of downloadable primary worksheets (that are also in the physical books) but can be downloaded and printed, saving the books from being marked up), many other workbook resources, additional worksheets (that are not in the books, which is great), and of course, answer keys. Ultimately, I give this program a 10 out of 10. I now feel like I have COMPLETE control over, and confidence in, teaching my children math effectively, from this point forward. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! for this impressive set of materials that you came up with. Sincerely and gratefully, Robert Hartwell