Make It Real Learning is the most exciting thing to happen to math since the abacus. Make It Real Learning connects the textbook world of math to the physical world. The connection is priceless as you will no longer have to sit glazed eyed and listen to your child chant “This makes no sense. When will I ever use this? This makes no sense. When will I ever use this?” If your child is chanting this overplayed tune then you have a unique opportunity to show them exactly how math class applies to the real world by introducing them to Make It Real Learning. Over my ten years of homeschooling I rarely have found a reason to be excited about math. Math is my weakness. I feared never being able to relate math to my children in a way that they could grasp and hold on to. Make It Real Learning has alleviated that fear.
Make It Real Learning is not a stand alone curriculum. It is an enhancement to your current mathematical study. There are 11 books and each contains real-world scenarios for functions such as fractions, decimals, percents, liner functions, quadratic functions and more. As an enhancement you can draw from the ebook which topic or scenario you want to feature that day. The books do not explain the math so your student needs to already have a background in the math presented in the scenario. However, you are provided with detailed solutions of the problems. The real world applications are current and relevant to the world your child is living in which makes a nice bridge to understanding the true concepts of math. As a parent you can chose the real world scenarios your child will be working with. A few of the scenarios may be inappropriate for some. I found most to be fantastic representations of how to use math in the real world and a few to be unnecessary.
Some examples of the real world scenarios you will enjoy:
Fruit Snacks: Working with Averages
Website Visitors: Using Bar Graphs
Borrowing Money: Working with Negative Integers
Caring for Pets: Estimating by Rounding