@@homeschoolingwiththesykesg5843 Wow. Thank you. I filmed this because my parents were confused about Math Map for this upcoming year. I’m just glad it’s been a blessing for others as well. We got this! It’s gonna be great.
This is the best video I've seen on TMM! I am a new ChA director this year, and this video really put my heart to rest more than anything else I've done/seen, and we've been working on TMM at home for weeks! THANK YOU!!! ❤
I wish I would have found this video about 6 hours ago:) I have spent many, many hours trying to wrap my head around this curriculum. THANK YOU for making it so easy to see and understand. I am still very skeptical about how/if we will use this at home, but I appreciate the basic understanding that I now have because of you! We have been a CC family for 10 years and one of my biggest struggles is that I have a hard time with how CC presents information, it usually doesn't make sense to my brain and I feel like it's a runaround just trying to get answers and see how it actually works. You are a blessing.
💯 This school year will be our 12th year. I love the resources and I love reclaiming my education, but PLEASE HELP ME OUT CC. I’m a busy mom. This is just the way Cc does it and I don’t think they’ll ever change- hence likely part of the reason we can’t get an app. EVERYONE HAS AN APP!!!
💆🏾♀️ finally a video that helps me. I feel like 😭. Thank you. My anxiety level is no longer a 10/10. It’s not 9/10. It is helpful. I knew I liked the concept but I’ve been lost!!!! My daughter is in B which I’m directing but I decided for us at home we were stepping back to build a better foundation. It’s 2:13 am and I feel I can get some rest then get back at it tomorrow. Our booklets arrived 2 days ago and I’ve been pulling my hair out. I only have 3 days to grasp this due to family obligations before we start in Aug.
Thank you!! I have heard so many great things about the Math Map but I never sat down to investigate and learn. I absolutely love math and have two daughters who don't so I was hoping that the Math Map would help all of us. This video was a perfect explanation so that I know how to work through the material each week. Bless you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you so much!!! It frustrates me that CC doesn’t spell things out like this as efficiently as you did. I hope that Cc will point people to the video when they are struggling to understand.
@@nattersar77 The latest book club is more along these lines. I tried to be concise with my explanation, although I feel like I left out all of the love and beauty about the curriculum and just focused on the logistics.
I just wanted to say THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I am trying out for my foundations kiddos this year and your video was soooo helpful. I wish they would have done something like this at practicum. I appreciate you taking the time to share!
I agree. CC convolutes their communication about most things, TMM included. This is by far the most comprehensive, easy to understand explanation of TMM. Thank you Amber!
This video was so helpful! Thankyou for taking the time to put this together and sharing it! I was overwhelmed with the Math Map prior to watching this video. Now I am excited to start using it!
It took me a while too. First, I had shock, then anger, then I argued using it, then I started learning about it, and now I’m to the point I can’t imagine learning math without it. 😊
This video is very helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to post this! By chance, could you share a video that shows how this looks on community day in class?
Your video is so thorough, thank you so much for breaking it down and posting it. I am going to search for the "how to organize" videos you mentioned. I am also interested in how you sent the Fractions to your print service. I cant seem to get all the weeks compiled into one document to send off for printing. I too am directing and also have a younger child wanting to do Fractions, as my older child does Complex. Do you happen to have a link complied for your Fractions binder you sent off? Thanks again for your reseource and your time!
The total fractions files are about 200MB in size so I had to send individual weeks in chunks to the printer and then place in order before bringing over to FedEx to be bound.
So extremely helpful! I have tried to wrap my head around how exactly we are supposed to use this. Even after practicum and watching the book club videos and being a person with a math degree, I still felt like I needed more details (a recipe) on what exactly to do with this. Do you happen to have something showing which Fractions and Notations cards coincide with each week's concepts? I'm envisioning labeling each side of the cards with which week the concept is introduced. I would just love something that lists out the cards and which week they go with.
@@mamaknight05 I put together a document with my pics for each week (not that they are necessarily right - just the ones we plan to use each week). I posted the document in the CC Challenge A Families group on Facebook.
Thank you for the breakdown of all of this! Question for using the younger domains as practice over the summer....Are the same charts also used in the Foundations levels? ie. Fractions? Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to explain the Math map. I have been so busy with my nursing school assignments and studying for the NCLEX that I am falling behind in preparing for my son's upcoming challenge A class. Would you recommend sticking with this or adding another math curriculum (my son would be doing Pre-Algebra)?
@@cbrn5906 The only thing I’m adding is some test taking prep in the summer (after we finish week 30) so my kids can have some practice on math drills for standardized tests. But we’ve done that all years (even with Saxon).
@@katiecooper9593 A few parents have posted sample flashcards on the Facebook CC Challenge A Families group. You could also look at the glossary (which is in the Companion) and create your own.
Could you comment on the preparation you did for your daily math lesson? Did you look through the lesson pages a week before and read up (on the companion) about the concepts you weren't sure about? Thanks
Do you mean as a director? Yes, I’ve been writing out my lesson plans and I’m making sure I have some comfort with the material that we are looking at on those frame pages. And I like to know how to solve the problems for the first four pages before having the kids work on theirs in class.
Thank you. What if my son is not at the level of Math CC would want him to be (typical 7th grade math per say) I don't want to stop his is Math that he's working through currently. Thoughts?
@@abbeyj6120 maybe just continue his current math and do one page a day from Math Map. They he can get exposure to the new vocabulary and concepts but can keep with his current math.
The Careful Conversations page says that the solutions are found in the companion, but I didn't see them there. My eyes are crossing trying to read the tiny print & I have to give up. Can you tell me where I can find the solutions? My eyes will thank you :)
So my child who will be starting complex has never had any experience with i (imaginary) numbers. Is that ok, will he gain an understanding of how they work as the years progress?
At this point it just looks like something that could consume my entire day. My daughter hates math and I'm trying to find something that will suit her needs without causing her to have a complete meltdown. I was told that art is integrated into the curriculum. How does that work?
The art is part of the exorcism that we go through on community day. I think you’ll be amazed at how much your child learns at community day, making it require less time than you think. Also, it’s a new way to approach math that might take your kids dislike of math to excitement about math.
Help please. This feels like handing kids a worksheet and saying good luck figuring this out. Big sigh. I want to like this curriculum but I see major frustration for my non-math brained student in our future.
I agree it’s going to take some guidance (especially for the kid where math is not intuitive) but I think it’s a skill they will develop and it will get better after first month or so.
My wife just handed me this book that I’m pretty sure was forged in an evil villain’s lair to torment children and drive their parents insane. I was good at math and teaching, and I have no idea how to start helping my kid with this or how to even make sense. It’s like the book was laid out by someone with no understanding of human eyes or information processing. Hopefully your video will help me understand it better bc I don’t really believe in my heart that the makers of this book hate children but so far the book is telling me otherwise.
Log into the Companion and instead of clicking under Complex like I do in the video, click under Fractions for each week and there will be a PDF with the pages.
I don't have my notations and fractions flashcards yet, but am wondering it there is a rhyme/reason to how the cards are arranged with respect to the content on both sides of the cards. One of my frustrations with the multiplication cards was that it was virtually impossible to separate out the cards for the current week of Math in Foundations.They just all seemed mixed up which is fine for drilling after a student is familiar with them all, but makes it difficult to sort out a subset for the current week's memory work.
I understand what you are saying. I guess that’s the downfall of having two flash cards on one card (by utilizing half of the card). I will say that they seem to keep concepts together though. So the Greek letters have a Greek letter on the back. So if you introduce alpha you probably could introduce beta on the same week (and that’s the front and back of one card).
@@homeschoolingwiththesykesg5843 They are starting the books club this week that will demonstrate how to use in community. Some of us early planners though wanted that info a few months ago. 🤣
@AmbersClassicalClassroom I don't have a ChA kiddo this year but I am wanting to try doing this at home with my younger student. I would love access to your flashcards for the math Laws, could I get that file?
I will admit that I was hesitant at first (maybe even angry with the change) but the more I learn about the program the more I understand how it fits perfect with the classical model and how we conduct our strands as directors. Much more than any other math program has done.
Truly amazing video. Tears are flowing. I simply want to do my best and felt left out in the winter storm, you came along and gave me a jacket.
@@homeschoolingwiththesykesg5843 Wow. Thank you. I filmed this because my parents were confused about Math Map for this upcoming year. I’m just glad it’s been a blessing for others as well. We got this! It’s gonna be great.
This is the best video I've seen on TMM! I am a new ChA director this year, and this video really put my heart to rest more than anything else I've done/seen, and we've been working on TMM at home for weeks! THANK YOU!!! ❤
I wish I would have found this video about 6 hours ago:) I have spent many, many hours trying to wrap my head around this curriculum. THANK YOU for making it so easy to see and understand. I am still very skeptical about how/if we will use this at home, but I appreciate the basic understanding that I now have because of you! We have been a CC family for 10 years and one of my biggest struggles is that I have a hard time with how CC presents information, it usually doesn't make sense to my brain and I feel like it's a runaround just trying to get answers and see how it actually works. You are a blessing.
💯 This school year will be our 12th year. I love the resources and I love reclaiming my education, but PLEASE HELP ME OUT CC. I’m a busy mom. This is just the way Cc does it and I don’t think they’ll ever change- hence likely part of the reason we can’t get an app. EVERYONE HAS AN APP!!!
I just started CC for the first time and it’s so hard to find explanations
💆🏾♀️ finally a video that helps me. I feel like 😭. Thank you. My anxiety level is no longer a 10/10. It’s not 9/10. It is helpful. I knew I liked the concept but I’ve been lost!!!! My daughter is in B which I’m directing but I decided for us at home we were stepping back to build a better foundation. It’s 2:13 am and I feel I can get some rest then get back at it tomorrow. Our booklets arrived 2 days ago and I’ve been pulling my hair out. I only have 3 days to grasp this due to family obligations before we start in Aug.
Thank you!! I have heard so many great things about the Math Map but I never sat down to investigate and learn. I absolutely love math and have two daughters who don't so I was hoping that the Math Map would help all of us. This video was a perfect explanation so that I know how to work through the material each week. Bless you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you so much!!!
It frustrates me that CC doesn’t spell things out like this as efficiently as you did. I hope that Cc will point people to the video when they are struggling to understand.
I think the new book clubs will lay things out nicely for people.
I watched several of the book clubs and they did not help me as much as this video did.
@@nattersar77 The latest book club is more along these lines. I tried to be concise with my explanation, although I feel like I left out all of the love and beauty about the curriculum and just focused on the logistics.
I just wanted to say THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I am trying out for my foundations kiddos this year and your video was soooo helpful. I wish they would have done something like this at practicum. I appreciate you taking the time to share!
SO much more helpful than anything I’ve seen so far! Thank you!
I agree. CC convolutes their communication about most things, TMM included. This is by far the most comprehensive, easy to understand explanation of TMM. Thank you Amber!
Thank you!!! This was wonderful. I was so lost! God bless you Amber.
This is wonderful. It was exactly what I needed to see what my day would look like.
Best video I've seen yet on TMM!! You're amazing! Thank you!!
This is extremely helpful! Thank you for sharing!
This was a fabulous video! Very thorough and helpful!!! Thank you so much for putting your time and energy into this!❤
This was amazingly helpful!!!! THANK YOU!
This video was so helpful! Thankyou for taking the time to put this together and sharing it! I was overwhelmed with the Math Map prior to watching this video. Now I am excited to start using it!
It took me a while too. First, I had shock, then anger, then I argued using it, then I started learning about it, and now I’m to the point I can’t imagine learning math without it. 😊
God bless you for putting this together! I will be sharing it will all my CHA families!
Thank you for this! I especially appreciate the pep talk. ❤
This is great! Thank you!!!
I truly appreciate you breaking this all down!! Thank you!❤
This is super helpful. Thank you for sharing!
Wow this was SO helpful and things are clicking in my brain now ha Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much! This was fantastic and really helpful!
Incredible! I’m so impressed! I wish my students were going to get to go through The Math Map!
So helpful! Thank you!
Thank you! This was amazing
Thank you so much for doing this! You just saved me so much time! Blessings!
Thank you again for making this video! So helpful and clear!
Thank you so much...Best explanation I've seen. Very helpful.
THANK YOU!!! Great video and very helpful.
This video is very helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to post this! By chance, could you share a video that shows how this looks on community day in class?
I haven’t used it in class yet but I have my lesson plan. So maybe I could do a walk through for class day (without students).
@@AmbersClassicalClassroom that would be amazing! ❤️
This would be very helpful as well!
Posted a video on this. Hope it helps.
amazing help!!
Thank you!
Your video is so thorough, thank you so much for breaking it down and posting it. I am going to search for the "how to organize" videos you mentioned. I am also interested in how you sent the Fractions to your print service. I cant seem to get all the weeks compiled into one document to send off for printing. I too am directing and also have a younger child wanting to do Fractions, as my older child does Complex. Do you happen to have a link complied for your Fractions binder you sent off? Thanks again for your reseource and your time!
The total fractions files are about 200MB in size so I had to send individual weeks in chunks to the printer and then place in order before bringing over to FedEx to be bound.
So extremely helpful! I have tried to wrap my head around how exactly we are supposed to use this. Even after practicum and watching the book club videos and being a person with a math degree, I still felt like I needed more details (a recipe) on what exactly to do with this. Do you happen to have something showing which Fractions and Notations cards coincide with each week's concepts? I'm envisioning labeling each side of the cards with which week the concept is introduced. I would just love something that lists out the cards and which week they go with.
@@mamaknight05 I put together a document with my pics for each week (not that they are necessarily right - just the ones we plan to use each week). I posted the document in the CC Challenge A Families group on Facebook.
Thank you for the breakdown of all of this! Question for using the younger domains as practice over the summer....Are the same charts also used in the Foundations levels? ie. Fractions? Thank you!
@@kellybeck3053 Yes. The charts are the same for every level/domain. They are the mastery of the material (what we are working towards).
Thank you for taking the time to explain the Math map. I have been so busy with my nursing school assignments and studying for the NCLEX that I am falling behind in preparing for my son's upcoming challenge A class. Would you recommend sticking with this or adding another math curriculum (my son would be doing Pre-Algebra)?
@@cbrn5906 The only thing I’m adding is some test taking prep in the summer (after we finish week 30) so my kids can have some practice on math drills for standardized tests. But we’ve done that all years (even with Saxon).
This video is amazing!
Thank you, Melody. That's kind of you to comment. I hope it helps people understand how things fit together.
Very helpful ❤
If we do not have the flashcards, is there a place we can get the information to make our own for the time being?
@@katiecooper9593 A few parents have posted sample flashcards on the Facebook CC Challenge A Families group. You could also look at the glossary (which is in the Companion) and create your own.
Could you comment on the preparation you did for your daily math lesson? Did you look through the lesson pages a week before and read up (on the companion) about the concepts you weren't sure about? Thanks
Do you mean as a director? Yes, I’ve been writing out my lesson plans and I’m making sure I have some comfort with the material that we are looking at on those frame pages. And I like to know how to solve the problems for the first four pages before having the kids work on theirs in class.
Thank you. What if my son is not at the level of Math CC would want him to be (typical 7th grade math per say) I don't want to stop his is Math that he's working through currently. Thoughts?
@@abbeyj6120 maybe just continue his current math and do one page a day from Math Map. They he can get exposure to the new vocabulary and concepts but can keep with his current math.
The Careful Conversations page says that the solutions are found in the companion, but I didn't see them there. My eyes are crossing trying to read the tiny print & I have to give up. Can you tell me where I can find the solutions? My eyes will thank you :)
I found your video on how to find them. Amazing how helpful & easy Google is! Thanks!!!!!
@@AndrewBrauer-gn2bq I have a video that shows just this.
@@AndrewBrauer-gn2bq Here’s the link:
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So my child who will be starting complex has never had any experience with i (imaginary) numbers. Is that ok, will he gain an understanding of how they work as the years progress?
@@rachelt2010 I would imagine most of the seventh graders haven’t learned about imaginary numbers. They will be learning together. It’s okay.
Did you print the Fractions files yourself or find somewhere to have it printed and spiral bound?
I had a printing company print each week and then I put in order and brought over to FedEx for them to bind.
@@AmbersClassicalClassroom Thank you!
@@AmbersClassicalClassroom did you make a single file for it that you used to send to the printing company?
At this point it just looks like something that could consume my entire day. My daughter hates math and I'm trying to find something that will suit her needs without causing her to have a complete meltdown. I was told that art is integrated into the curriculum. How does that work?
The art is part of the exorcism that we go through on community day. I think you’ll be amazed at how much your child learns at community day, making it require less time than you think. Also, it’s a new way to approach math that might take your kids dislike of math to excitement about math.
Help please. This feels like handing kids a worksheet and saying good luck figuring this out. Big sigh. I want to like this curriculum but I see major frustration for my non-math brained student in our future.
I agree it’s going to take some guidance (especially for the kid where math is not intuitive) but I think it’s a skill they will develop and it will get better after first month or so.
I have never agreed so much with anything in my life. This is how i feel. Charts are soo overwhelming to me even and I was good at math
My wife just handed me this book that I’m pretty sure was forged in an evil villain’s lair to torment children and drive their parents insane. I was good at math and teaching, and I have no idea how to start helping my kid with this or how to even make sense. It’s like the book was laid out by someone with no understanding of human eyes or information processing.
Hopefully your video will help me understand it better bc I don’t really believe in my heart that the makers of this book hate children but so far the book is telling me otherwise.
Where can I find Fractions in CC Connected?
Log into the Companion and instead of clicking under Complex like I do in the video, click under Fractions for each week and there will be a PDF with the pages.
The Companion is found in Semester 1, Week 7. I was just recently trying to download them, as well.
I don't have my notations and fractions flashcards yet, but am wondering it there is a rhyme/reason to how the cards are arranged with respect to the content on both sides of the cards. One of my frustrations with the multiplication cards was that it was virtually impossible to separate out the cards for the current week of Math in Foundations.They just all seemed mixed up which is fine for drilling after a student is familiar with them all, but makes it difficult to sort out a subset for the current week's memory work.
I understand what you are saying. I guess that’s the downfall of having two flash cards on one card (by utilizing half of the card). I will say that they seem to keep concepts together though. So the Greek letters have a Greek letter on the back. So if you introduce alpha you probably could introduce beta on the same week (and that’s the front and back of one card).
This was extremely helpful. Thank you!!
Why didn’t they offer a how to class for families the way you can for LTW over the summer.
@@homeschoolingwiththesykesg5843 They are starting the books club this week that will demonstrate how to use in community. Some of us early planners though wanted that info a few months ago. 🤣
Would you be willing to share your lesson plans or lint to a site to sell them
I have shared my lesson plans in the challenge A directors groups on both Facebook and Band, for free.
@@AmbersClassicalClassroom great! You are such a blessing! I have found and joined the CH A Director FB page. Can you tell me the Band name
@@natthebrat1131 It's called Challenge A Directors. It's pretty small, but very helpful people. And reaches some who don't want to use Facebook.
@AmbersClassicalClassroom I don't have a ChA kiddo this year but I am wanting to try doing this at home with my younger student. I would love access to your flashcards for the math Laws, could I get that file?
@@ElizabethReeves-p6c Try this: drive.google.com/file/d/1sfFWId4dCTjiwWzL6OGKcseMymgI0IWw/view?usp=share_link
Why aren’t more parents informing CC how absolutely screwed up this math program is for the majority of our community.
I will admit that I was hesitant at first (maybe even angry with the change) but the more I learn about the program the more I understand how it fits perfect with the classical model and how we conduct our strands as directors. Much more than any other math program has done.
Thank you!!