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I'm new at this. I'll begin homeschooling this coming fall (07) my 6th grade daughter so I'm looking into and researching everything. I'm struggling to find the right curriculum for her. She has always struggled, primarily in problem solving and reasoning. I'm not a math person either. Any suggestions that can help a math-challenged 6th grader and her mom would be greatly appreciated.

I have read some good things about a math book geared toward middle school girls. It was written by a female mathematician/physicist/actor.

Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail by Danica McKellar

http://www.mathdoesntsuck.com/


Of course there is some debate about using examples from shopping, fasion, cell phone minutes, etc. to stereotypically reach out to girls, but if the regular math books use sports examples that stereotypically reach out to boys, then maybe this is a balance for those girls who don't like math as it is traditionally taught, but who might get excited about examples that they are interested in.

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/ ... suck_d.php

I have never used it but I heard good things about and have a friend who swears by math-u-see.

I really like Saxon, as do our 2 middle school girls. It's a simple approach, no bells/whistles. You can go at a slower pace when they get stuck. I've posted details about it at our family site:

http://www.everygoodpath.net/search/node/saxon