Math for the auditory learner? recs?

[neveryoumindthere]

i *think* my dd, who just turned 4, is an auditory learner (??) she memorizes things easily, pays way more attention to the words than the pictures in books, and loves language...

what math programs would tap into her strengths..although she is more auditory I think she might benefit from actually seeing things being added or taken away

she already does simple addition and subtraction, using either her fingers or toys or whatever and knows all the shapes and the differences btwn them and greater than and less than..but not time in hours *and* minutes (just by hour) which i noticed was at K level for a lot of programs..i thought public schooled kids learned about time much later for some reason (cuz it seems it would be hard to wrap ur brain around the fact that the minute hand is on the 3 so it must mean 15 min. past the hour)

when it comes to workbooks (which she loves) she does ask me what it says to do (ie. underline or X it out which I think is *so* boring and it seems she focuses more on what they are saying to do rather than why she is doing it) and she whips thru them FAst, for greater than less than worksheets i've given her she does 30 questions in about 5 min. totally understanding it and all correct and she says "this is fun!" :heart I love math too! .. she definitely loves challenges but I dont know if she's benefiting from repetition as well..anything combine all these factors?

I'm looking into Singapore, Math-u-see, and Miquon right now only cuz they are so often mentioned..

I minored in math in univ. so i'm comfortable with numbers, but definitely need some guidelines/explanations b/c i'm so easily distracted/cant focus --I'm a visual person and always always needed to draw a picture of whatever math problem i was working on.

[Lillian J]

You might also take a look at Patterns in Arithmetic, a really nice little program developed by the University of California, Irvine Farm Elementary School, a research and development lab school established in 1969 to do research on how children learn. It aims to help children think like mathematicians. It uses a few manipulatives and things found around the home (like goldfish crackers).
There's information about their background and philosophy on this page:
Patterns Press Home Page - and there are some sample games there too.

Book I

Book II

Lillian

[AnnR33]

I don't have a specific program to suggest but my son is definitely an auditory learner and he has done very well with math songs on CD. There are tons out there, you should check your library for some to try. We listen to them in the car for math facts, skip counting, and other basic concepts and he picked them up quickly.
We also played lots of games, especially for things he didn't get on paper like fractions and it made a huge difference. Just talking thru a game with basic things like pizza slices made it so much clearer for him.

He actually prefers black/white workbks with few pictures because he's so auditory and not visual.

[LilyGrace]

We use Math U See. I would suggest getting the demo dvd if you are interested (though be warned he does talk a LOT on it!), and going from there. I like it. It presents math in a fun, hands on way but there is the benefit of the teacher explaining every step and it sticking to MATH.
My oldest (8) went to public school for a month last year and came home with this math book we both just stick our tongues out at - it's so concerned with pictures and making it "fun" that it forgets to present lessons in an orderly fashion - and what is there is all pictures, all the time, so nothing really gets learned. MUS is black and white, 6 pages per lesson, but we rarely do them all. Usually he does 4 - two new pages, two review, and then the test.

[Lillian J]

Originally Posted by AnnR33

I don't have a specific program to suggest but my son is definitely an auditory learner and he has done very well with math songs on CD. There are tons out there, you should check your library for some to try. We listen to them in the car for math facts, skip counting, and other basic concepts and he picked them up quickly.

A neighbor of ours learned the multiplication facts from the old Schoolhouse Rock ones. They're particularly well done - imaginative and catchy. Lillian

[neveryoumindthere]

after looking more into math-u-see it seems like it might be a good fit..since she does respond wellto someone explaining and then she can watch how they use the manipulatives as well ..

but i was wondering if anyone used this..if i should bother with primer or go for alpha? if there is enough review in alpha?
like i mentioned she does addition and subtraction using manipulatives and some in her head as well..she was just so happy with a math sheet i printed out for her off the mathusee site :
lol

i'm still open to suggestions though
thx

[LilyGrace]

Originally Posted by neveryoumindthere

but i was wondering if anyone used this..if i should bother with primer or go for alpha? if there is enough review in alpha?

I've heard from quite a few that the Alpha repeats a lot of what the primer offers. I would just go with that if I were you.