Hello! I'm Nikki, the math director for The Good and the Beautiful, and today I'm
so excited to show you our Math 6 course which is available as a free download on our website
goodandbeautiful.com. These lessons were carefully designed to meet national standards and provide a
thorough and strong academic foundation. At the same time, they make connections to art, nature,
God, music, careers, science, and engineering. Let's take a quick look at Lesson Six:
Properties of Triangles to see how a lesson works. This lesson begins with a warm-up section,
which reviews concepts the child will need during the lesson. The warm-up is discussed by the
teacher in the video lesson and then new content is presented using a fun interactive theme.
During the video, the student completes a guided practice of the topic being taught.
Take a look at part of the video for this lesson to see the real-world connections.
Look at the triangle instrument. It isn't a perfect triangle,
but which type does it look most like? Equilateral, isosceles, or scalene?
Students will also complete a mental math section each day to keep their mental skills sharp.
This section can be completed before or after the video.
Each lesson also includes a concise written mini-lesson.
Students can refer back to the mini-lesson if they have questions during the lesson practice.
Students also have the option of skipping the video and just reading the mini-lesson
if they already have an understanding of the topic presented. Alternatively, some parents choose to
teach their children using the mini-lesson rather than having them watch the video.
Finally, we come to the lesson practice and review sections. In this lesson practice, students draw
different types of triangles using colored pencils as they mark parts of triangles and find the area
of various triangles. The review section contains material from the previous lessons and the lesson
number is shown after each review problem so students can refer back to that lesson if needed.
Many lessons use puzzles and other fun activities to cement concepts like lesson 20, where students
complete a maze to practice the order of operations, or lesson 21, where students work
as a city planner matching the area of buildings to practice finding the area of irregular figures.
In lesson 78, students learn about theoretical and experimental probability as they perform a variety
of probability experiments like rolling dice, flipping coins, and drawing names from a jar.
Other lessons contain games and logic activities to increase critical thinking.
In lesson 15, students remove and cut apart puzzle cards and then solve the puzzles using clues from
around the museum. Our math video lessons have been a favorite of children all over the world
and a lifesaver for parents who feel nervous about teaching higher-level math.
Take a look at some clips from various videos in Math 6.
Welcome to another math lesson! We're going to learn a little about a painter from the
post-impressionist art movement as we continue our study of fractions, decimals, and percents.
If I divided 7 by 8, I would get the decimal number 0.875. Then, I could move the decimal
point 2 places to the right and write a percent sign. So 7/8 is equal to 87.5 percent. A polygon
also has the same number of vertices and angles as it has sides. Take a look at this pentagon.
At the end of each unit, there is a review lesson and a unique assessment.
Two lessons are allotted for the unit assessment.
On the first day, students complete the purple sections and have their work checked by a parent.
If sections have mistakes, parents put a check in the correlating orange additional practice
box. On the second day, students complete only the orange sections that have a checkmark in the box.
Pilot parents loved these assessments because they could see exactly what concepts their
children understood and what they needed to practice. Speaking of pilot families,
let's hear what some of them had to say about this course. One parent wrote: "My son always fought me
on every math program we tried until The Good and the Beautiful." And another parent said, "Overall,
I am impressed with how you are able to simplify complex math concepts and make them understandable
while keeping the material rigorous, engaging, and relatable to real life." We hope that our Math 6
course will make a difference in your homeschool as well. Before I go, take a quick look at some
of the other beautiful pages in the Math 6 book which can be downloaded for free at our website.