A reward for a job well done

We swapped Eden's math curriculum over a few months ago, and Eden has completed her first Book. It is not that we were unhappy with Saxon Maths, it is just that after three years of doing it, Eden had got really bored with the format.

I told her once she finishes then she can choose a reward for finishing. It is amazing how much this insentive helped with her attitude since she is not one who would choose to do Maths for the fun of it, like I did as a kid. It has been great to see her make less and less careless mistakes as she made her way to the end of the book, and her ability to do word sums has increased amazingly well. Well done Eden! Niamh has started the book before this, but is complaining about it being too easy(such is life for a Math brained person), but I want her to be able to get all the math facts instantly. It is so funny to hear her say, mom I didn't even have to think about the answer, it was just there in my head, I know what she means.

Swapping over curriculums though has made me see that there are good things in one curriculum and good things in another, so with Niamh I will continue to pull out all the good lessons from the old curriculum Saxon, which is what Eden did last year. They cover some really good things that Mathusee don't seem to address. I am tempted to get the next Saxon for Eden too so she can do both, but I don't think she will be too pleased with having to do two lots of math a day being a right brained person, hmmmm will have to give that one some prayer and thought.