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Created by a Canadian mathematician and run as a charity, JUMP math believes that everyone can do math. Breaking down concepts into step-by-step processes, this program refers to their approach as “structured inquiry.”
Although designed for classroom use, it’s easy to use at home as well. This program uses two workbooks per grade level and uses a spiral method - building on concepts learned in book 1 in book 2.
Teacher Guides are available on their website when you make a free account, along with many other additional resources that you can reference or use to help with the program and professional training options.
Currently available are Grades Kindergarten through 8 in editions for Canada (English), Canada (French), and USA (Common Core). Ordering through the website is intended mostly for classroom purchases, individuals are suggested to order through local homeschool bookstores or Amazon.
*Note: There are also books called JUMP at Home which are more intended for review than as the curriculum. Look for the books with have two per grade instead.*
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- Free Support Resources
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- Grades K - 8
- Review / Spiral Method
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Great Math Curriculum
Love these math books for my son. They are inexpensive and generally provide good explanations for each lesson as well as lots of practice questions. I also love they’re Canadian. They print in black and white on cheap paper and have very few pictures, which for us is fine, but may not be for others.
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We have used Jump Math for 2 years (now grade 3&5) and I love that it’s a Canadian curriculum, super cheap to purchase, and well laid out. It was great at first for my girls, and I do highly recommend it, but we will be switching this year because my oldest would like more “teaching” before working through the concepts (obviously I could have don’t this and there are teaching resources available online but that didn’t work for me and I found them difficult to access. I would prefer a printed teacher book) also the workbooks are set up for classroom use, so often we’d have to shift our lessons because we don’t have a classroom of kids to work with! And for my youngest, she was often overwhelmed with the variety of ways presented to learn one concept. This could be great for some kids, but for her, she would just be starting to understand how to do something and then they would be getting them to try it a different way so she never felt like she had mastered a concept, just had a vague understanding of multiple ways to do it! I would sometimes choose just one way and work through it with her, but that meant a lot of hands on for me as the parent to adapt each lesson. Overall a great resource, but we will try something new next year!
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Was a love /hate
We liked the simplicity of the book but found it overwhelming at times…
The concepts were generally well explained and I never used the teacher manual. Bonus my daughter didn’t mind it.
What I didn’t like was there was a lot of units and felt like we had to do some every day to ensure we could finish the book that year. So if we missed a day of math my daughter would have to double her work load. This didn’t “jive” with our family life.
Overall I would use this curriculum again if my daughter absolutely loved it but we really needed a way to enjoy life and not have to constantly focus on book work.
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We tried Jump Math at the very start of our homeschool journey, and I was very confused when I opened the student work book to find pages of shapes, equations, lines, etc. and absolutely no direction whatsoever. So I went online and found the Teachers Manual and was even more confused.
In my opinion, this is not a good curriculum for someone who is unfamiliar with reading documents written for the classroom. I could not follow the Teachers Manual at all. It really felt like I needed a math degree and to be trained in how to read these documents. Being online only was another issue. Maybe if I had a physical copy that I could hold in my hands and highlight and mark up, maybe I could have made some sense of it. We struggled through for 6 weeks before I gave up. I was not expecting second grade math to be that confusing.
We moved onto MathMammoth which is a “work text” meaning it is written to the student. No separate Teachers Guide needed. The teaching portion is right there, on the page along side the practice equations. If the child makes a mistake, they can quickly compare it to the explain and see what they did wrong.
I recommend going online and looking at the Teachers Manual first before ordering the work books. Make sure you can wrap your head around how to implement it in your home.
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