Earlybird math

[AAK]

For those of you who use Singapore Math Earlybird A. . . did you buy the textbook or the workbook or both. Why? In their guide, they seem to suggest the textbook, but after viewing the sample pages, I am leaning towards the workbook.

I am just wanting to get this for my soon to be 4 yr old who loves to devour workbooks. She always wants to do school too. I send her to a play based preschool which she loves, but on the days that she is home I would like something better for "school" for her. She will probably do it when Anna sits down for math too.

Amy

[kgianforti]

SM EB users here! When I bought Level A, I bought both the textbook and the workbook because dd was young when we started and she likes cut/paste stuff. Didn't need both books and I used as much of the workbook as she could tolerate. It took about 5 weeks to finish A and I tried dragging it out with both books.

With Level B (almost done with), I bought both books again and probably could have gotten away with just the textbook.

Using just the WB should be fine as long as you don't want the little teaching hints at the bottom of the pages like in the textbook. I like seeing those and getting ideas so I would have just choose the textbook for each A and B, if I had to do it again.

[AAK]

Originally Posted by kgianforti

SM EB users here! When I bought Level A, I bought both the textbook and the workbook because dd was young when we started and she likes cut/paste stuff. Didn't need both books and I used as much of the workbook as she could tolerate. It took about 5 weeks to finish A and I tried dragging it out with both books.

Thanks! About the cut/paste stuff--my dd loves cut/paste, was there more of that in the textbooks vs workbooks?

[kgianforti]

It is all in the WB, the textbook is writing stuff. Good luck!

We are actually switching to Horizons when EB is done!