Not long ago I had was sent Ray’s Arithmetic by Dollar Homeschool to review. This is a complete math curriculum from counting to calculus, for grades K-12.
Ray’s Arithmetic comes in CD format. The series includes a total of 38 books. These include 12 core textbooks, answer keys, teachers editions and more. You can see the complete list of what is included in this series here. There are also sample pages you can view here.
Price: The CD is available for $59.
From the Dollar Homeschool website:
The Ray's Arithmetic was originally created to be used by frontier Americans, Americans that often lived in areas where available teachers were few, often far away, or even completely unavailable. For this reason the books are designed to allow children, once they can read, to educate themselves to a very great extent.
This curriculum was used for 50 years. Over 100 million students were educated using Ray’s Arithmetic. These books were used exclusively in US schools from 1865-1915.
This is a a very back to basics curriculum. There are no bells and whistles like much of today’s math. The pictures and text are all in black and white. Many of the lessons are set up to be taught orally. If you follow the Classical or Charlotte Mason method this series may be ideal for your family.
This was not a good fit for our family. I found the text a bit blurry and some of the pages dark and a bit difficult to read on the computer. The vast amount of information was a bit overwhelming. While I would not use this as our sole math curriculum, I would use this to supplement our lessons.
The benefits I do see is that it is a a great value for the money. For $59 you do get a complete curriculum. You can print as little as much a you like. The CD is composed of PDF’s that can be viewed or printed from any computer.
Be sure to visit the TOS Homeschool blog to read other reviews of Ray’ Arithmetic.
Disclosure: This product was provided to me free as a member of the The Old Schoolhouse Homeschool Crew 2009-2010. All reviews and opinions expressed on this blog are my own
1 comments:
I've been wondering about this. Glad to read your review Michele.
I am being considered for the TOS reviews for this next year. I am really hoping we are chosen- I think our family would really enjoy reviewing the items.
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