Starting Out With Mental Algebra, Teacher’s Edition: Book 1 of Doodles Do Algebra(tm) (Doodles Do Algebra Teacher’s Guides)

What Is In This Book? This book includes the teacher’s notes, answer key, and a copy of the student workbook pages. Unlike most curricula for homeschooling that seems to include teacher’s notes as an afterthought, this series is focused heavily on notes to the teacher. We provide alternatives for teaching each lesson so that you can adjust the material to fit each child’s individual needs. No matter how your child learns and understands math best, we have a suggestion. How Much Of Algebra Is Covered In This Book? This first in the Doodles Do Algebra series is focused on Mental Math and is designed as the first step to learning Algebra for your child. The philosophy is focused on helping your child to think about abstracting and grouping items in order to make calculations of cost, price, age, and amount. The concept of the unknown, or typically x, is introduced at the end of this book and will be the first topic in the next book in the series. Algebra Can Be Easy for Anyone to Teach Any Child Each book in the series is available as both a teacher’s guide and a student workbook for use in a tutoring group, small class, or homeschool. No additional texts are needed. Parents with any educational background will be equipped to teach the subject using the teacher’s guide as a resource. Designed for Gifted, 2e, Special Education, and Everything Between Different ways of thinking about and explaining each lesson are included in the teacher’s guide to accommodate children who are gifted, or dyslexic, or prefer nearly any learning style. Flexible and Friendly Individual worksheets work as a stand-alone curriculum, or as reinforcement and supplemental practice. This book is the result of years of teaching children, teens, and adults. Students will learn why algebra works, not just how to use it. Topics Learned in This Book This first book in the series is focused on mental math. In it, a child will learn to think about abstracting and grouping items in order to make calculations of cost, price, age, and amount. The concept of the unknown, or typically x, is introduced at the end of this book and will be the first topic in the next book in the series. Solving word problems in your head (mental math) Understanding the concept of ‘X’ Solving word problems to divide items into groups Using ‘X’ as a placeholder Converting from a word problem into an algebra equation Solving equations for ‘X’ All Books in the Doodles Do Algebra(tm) Curriculum Series Book 1: Starting Out with Mental Algebra Book 2: Unknowns and the 29 Articles of Algebra Book 3: The Basic Math of Algebra Book 4: Factors and Multiples in Algebra Book 5: Working with Fractions in Algebra Book 6: Solving Equations in Algebra Book 7: Powers, Exponents, and Roots in Algebra About the Author Kirsten West, PhD is a former senior market research analyst and Biophysicist who abandoned the corporate and academic worlds to homeschool her wonderful children in a perfectly noisy house filled with the real-life versions of the cartoon characters featured in her Doodles Do Algebra(tm) series of math books. This algebra series was written for use with her own children after trying many different math curricula that did not work well long term. Since the curriculum was completed, hundreds of families have successfully used these lessons to teach algebra to their children at home. For More Information about the Doodles Do Algebra(tm) curriculum, see www.TeachMeBetter.org where parents can get more details on the curriculum and also get their questions answered.