Hi, I'm Jenny Phillips and I'm gonna give you a look inside Simply Good and Beautiful
Math 2. Simply Good and Beautiful math courses are perfect for homeschool families who want
a strong math foundation with courses that are engaging, open and go, easy to teach,
meaningful, and with lessons that are just the right length. Simply Good and Beautiful
Math 2 comes with 2 components, the math box and the math course book. The course book
is 354 pages and we will look at that in a minute. The wooden math box is small and simple
with a sliding lid. It is easy to open and quick to access the things you need. So I'm
just gonna go over these items really quick. You have plastic coins, just the right number
that you need for the course. If you prefer real coins, you can just replace them. We
have dollar bills. There's a lot of them, I don't think you want to replace these all
with real dollar bills, but these work really well and are used throughout the course. And
we have our fraction dice, and they are used for a really fun game throughout the course.
We have our ten-sided dice, and we have these wooden stars that have numbers on the back
of them, all different colors of stars that are used in different ways throughout the
course. And then we also have our metal figures here which we have a helicopter, a rocket,
a biplane, and an airliner. And last, but not least, the math lid has a clock right
on it so you never have to go scrambling for the clock and wondering where it is. We did
not want a huge box of manipulatives that you had to search around and dig around in
to try to find what you need and take time to set things up. Kids love how we have incorporated
these simple little items into the math lessons in really fun and effective ways. So let's
take a look into the course book. So first of all, the course book has an awesome lay-flat
binding. So because it is not coil-bound, you don't have to worry about the pages coming
out of the coil, and it stores much more easily. And also, the coils don't get in the way of
the children writing. So lay-flat binding means that it lays flat when you open the
course book. It is a special kind of binding. So you will want to break in this book, so
when you get it you will want to open it up around the middle and gently press it down,
and just take sections of the book and press it down like this and then your book will
be ready to go! So let's take a look inside of the course book. The course book is divided
into four units, and each unit has an overview page that shows the concepts that are taught
and the extra supplies that are needed, which is not very much, and parent and teacher tips.
There are 120 lessons. If you do 4 lessons a week, you will easily get through the course
in 1 school year. So let's take a look at how the lessons work. This is an example of
a lesson that is just really simple and gets down to business and just teaches the concept.
Every lesson starts with a review box, and you can go ahead and skip this if your child
already knows the concepts, or you can just do it as a review to help them. So, for example,
in this one, they are going to spell 13, 14, and 15 on a whiteboard. They are going to
write out those numbers, and do some work with tally marks. And then, it just says 'read
to the child "To add 10 to a number, we increase the digit in the 10s place by 1. The number
784 is on the first chart. Point to the digit in the 10s place." ' So they will point to
the 8. And then you say "In the next chart, write the sum of 784 plus 10 by increasing
the digit in the 10s place by 1". So you're gonna put 9 here and do 794. You're gonna
read through this, it is gonna teach them adding and subtracting 10 and 100. As they
go through this with you, the course book is both the parent book and the student book
together. And then, you are going to play a fun game. You can quickly in just a matter
of a few seconds take out the things you need without losing the child's focus from the
math box, and you are gonna use these numbers in this game that you are gonna play with
the child, which is gonna reinforce the concept that you just taught them in the lesson. And
then they'll have an independent review page. This independent review page reviews what
the child has learned in previous lessons so the child can actually start with the independent
review page. So, if you are teaching multiple children, you can start a lesson with another
child while you have the child in math 2 or whatever level work on their independent review
page. Okay, I am going to flip through some of the
other lessons here so you can get an idea of how the course looks and go over some of
the other points of this course. We do incorporate a lot of nature, and a lot of real-life connections,
and even art as you can see in these couple of lessons here. One of the things that we
used in this course that our pilot families loved is star logic. The students have to
use logic to organize the stars according to the clues that they have. Okay, this is
an example of a lesson that uses the metal pieces, the metal figures here. You are going
to play a game where you use these, and they are used throughout the course in different
ways. One of the other things that was really important to us in creating this course was
featuring a lot of diversity, which you will see throughout the course. A lot of the lessons
also use story to teach simple and short. So here's an example of that. You can also
see here is one example of using the fraction dice. You can get them out really quickly
and play this game with the child with these fraction dice which they love. So in this
lesson, for example, I'll read it. It says "Madison has been playing the flute since
she was 8 years old. She plays in an orchestra and they went on tour. At the first performance
on their tour, there was 2,232 people in the audience. The chart below shows 2,232 with
base 10 blocks. The green cubes are 1,000 cubes. They each have ten 100 squares, which
is 1,000 total blocks. And it goes on to tell this story and it talks about the different
performances she went to, and how many people were in the audience as the child is learning
place value to the thousands. And then a little later they will practice elapsed time using
this same character that they learned about in their lesson. So I'll continue to flip
through here so you can just get an idea of what the course looks like. We also focused
a lot on making the course appealing to both boys and girls and using kinesthetic, auditory,
and visual learning. This is an example of when you will use the rocket in this one as
you play a game that is right here in the course book. You will use the rocket in a
really fun way. After every unit, there is a unit assessment and it will assess the principles
that have been taught in that unit and also give additional practice options if your child
has not yet mastered it. I'll flip through just a few more pages here in closing to give
you a look. These lessons each take 20 to 25 minutes. The parent portion is just 10
to 15 minutes which really helps when you have multiple children that need to be taught
math on a different level. It makes it a lot more feasible. But we have created things
in such a way that your child is not missing any of the concepts they need in getting a
really strong math foundation. As a homeschool mom myself, it is exactly what I would want
for a math program teaching multiple children. That's it for the flip through. Our goal for
this course was to make math fun, meaningful, and really easy to teach while also being
academically strong, which is important to us. For more information about Math 2 or other
levels in Simply Good and Beautiful math, go to goodandbeautiful.com, and I hope that
Simply Good and Beautiful Math will help make your homeschool a powerful, and positive,
and easy experience.