The Math Worksheet Site saves time, both for the parent and the child. Our children have spent a lot less time at their desks with math in the younger years than they would have spent with a textbook, because with the flexibility of The Math Worksheet Site, when they’ve mastered a concept, they can move on immediately. Or if they’ve reached a development plateau, we can let them take a break from math and let them mature a little more. Then they can pick up where they left off and it will be easier to continue.

My third daughter, Anna, thought that doing her daddy’s worksheets was fun at age 6 or so. But she really didn’t do anything of substance with paper-and-pencil math until she was 7. In August of what could have been called her “second grade” year, I taught her how to add with carrying. Comparing her to the school system, one might have thought she was “behind.”

In October of that same year, she asked me to teach her how to subtract with borrowing (or regrouping). She continued to select, print and complete more worksheets, even if I didn’t get them corrected and returned to her in a timely manner. The layout of The Math Worksheet Site made it obvious to her how to increase the difficulty level just a little, and she did so when she felt the worksheets were becoming too easy.

In January of her “second grade” year, I rather awoke to the fact that she was figuring out the multiplication tables by herself. If compared to her schooled peers, one would then have decided that she was “ahead.”

By February, she reached some sort of burn-out or perhaps a need for some more growth and development. She set math aside for what turned out to be about a year.

When she picked it up again, she quickly finished up the multiplication tables. She had accomplished in about 8 months of effort what classroom-schooled children do in 3 years.

Of course our ultimate goal is for the children to master the material. If they can do so in fewer hours actually spent at a desk, leaving more time to build fantastic Lego creations and watch birds build nests, I think that’s great.

I’m very pleased with the flexibility of The Math Worksheet Site to save time for the children.

–Denise