Really, any people who like math, homeschooling or "afterschooling," could use it with their own families to good effect. Another favorite math series I learned about from homeschoolers, which I use with my own children in combination with the Singapore Primary Mathematics series, is Miquon Math.
Making Math Meaningful - not sure if it's still around - was what my mother used when I was homeschooled. It introduced concepts like variables from the very beginning, but without letters: one problem might be 1 + 1 = [ ]. A week later, you might see 1 + [ ] = 2. Eventually it just becomes intuitive what the missing box should be. Unfortunately, because I knew the theorums behind why you could do it intuitively instead of discretely, I had a hard time when I ended up in public school...
This is a pretty good page ("What Works Clearinghouse") for keeping up with "what works" in education. I'm linking this particular result here because of the "Singapore Math" connection, but their focus is on classroom use, not homeschool. They don't test things themselves, they just act as bullshit detectors.
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I understand that home-schoolers love it, though.
Really, any people who like math, homeschooling or "afterschooling," could use it with their own families to good effect. Another favorite math series I learned about from homeschoolers, which I use with my own children in combination with the Singapore Primary Mathematics series, is Miquon Math.
http://www.keypress.com/x6252.xml
It's a shame that lousy textbooks crowd good textbooks out of the market at present.
Making Math Meaningful - not sure if it's still around - was what my mother used when I was homeschooled. It introduced concepts like variables from the very beginning, but without letters: one problem might be 1 + 1 = [ ]. A week later, you might see 1 + [ ] = 2. Eventually it just becomes intuitive what the missing box should be. Unfortunately, because I knew the theorums behind why you could do it intuitively instead of discretely, I had a hard time when I ended up in public school...
This is a pretty good page ("What Works Clearinghouse") for keeping up with "what works" in education. I'm linking this particular result here because of the "Singapore Math" connection, but their focus is on classroom use, not homeschool. They don't test things themselves, they just act as bullshit detectors.
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/reports/middle_math/singaporemath...