We seem to be reviewing a lot of math products for the TOS Homeschool Crew this year! Of course my youngest adores math so this was not a problem for her. One of the math products we received for free was from Math Mammoth.

First of all I was very impressed by the materials offered by Math Mammoth. We had been using both Abeka and Saxon math workbooks for my two kids. My youngest was using Abeka’s second grade book. I just get the student books for my kids so I was happy to see that Math Mammoth’s light blue series books were a complete program in itself. There is a section that has an explanation of the math concept being taught and all the problems contain an example to follow that makes it virtually self-teaching. No buying expensive teacher books along with the student books. I really liked that all I had to do is have the student book for a complete curriculum. I received the books as downloads so that I could just print the pages off as I needed them. No more needing extra room on our bookcases for workbooks. It also fits nicely with how we do things because I put the pages to work on into their folders of to do stuff for the day and then when completed they get placed into their completion folders. Once I grade them, they put their finished pages into their school binders.

Both my kids really enjoyed the Math Mammoth lessons, which is good because my oldest is not very into math, as you can remember if you have been reading my blog for very long.

Math Mammoth has books that cover specific topics as well as full curriculums. Some examples of their specific topic areas are ones about fractions, money, or the one that we received which was multiplication. The various books are color-coded for you to easily find what you are looking for on their website. You can see a description of what they offer here at the Math Mammoth website.

The light Blue series books are a full curriculum for grades 1 though 5. Both my kids took the placement tests offered at their website and I selected books based on the results. Math Mammoth has convenient placement tests that you can download for free here in order to determine what grade level your child should use.

After my kids took the placement tests offered at their website, I selected books based on the results so I got the grade 2 and grade 4 light blue books.. The light blue books introduce new concepts using a well written explanation with examples and are easily recognized by being enclosed in a blue box in the student text. My daughters were able to work on each session without much assistance from me. I would step in and go through the new concepts with them using what was in the book then they proceeded to work on the problems on their own. I didn’t need to go through the entire lesson to find what information was new and what I had to go over with them before they started their math work for the day. Per the Math Mammoth website , “Each grade level in the curriculum consists of two student worktexts (A and B), and supportive materials, which include answer keys, tests, cumulative reviews, and an additional worksheet maker.”
We also received the Multiplication 1 worktext which is a blue series book that really helped to explain and help both my kids to learn about multiplication. This was an area that my oldest was having problems with and before long she was amazing my husband and I by answering questions that I had not realized she could answer.
You can check the Math Mammoth website to see what is included in each grade level as well as the other products offered.

There are various options for getting Math Mammoth’s products. You can purchase them as downloads or printed copies. The complete curriculum of Light Blue series for each grade is $29.70 (for a downloadable version). You can also purchase each of the work-texts separately or choose the printed versions available at the website.

The Blue Series book, Multiplication 1 can be purchased as a download version for $5.00.

The products at Math Mammoth are quite reasonably priced and worth checking out for yourself. You can go to the Math Mammoth website and see what they have to offer.

My fellow Crew Members also have reviewed the various products and you can see what they each have to say here at our Homeschool Crew Blog.

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