All About Math

Provides excellent teacher support through detailed manuals, explanations, and free instructional videos.

Teacher manuals explain concepts like subitizing, provide mathematical background, include preparatory instructions and objectives, offer free explanatory videos, and help parents understand the program even with poor math backgrounds.

Strong support for direct instruction through comprehensive scripted lessons that guide parents step-by-step.

Teacher manuals provide thoroughly scripted lessons with preparatory instructions, concept explanations, and step-by-step lesson plans. Parents read lessons directly from the manual and direct activities following detailed scripts.

Uses effective mastery-based sequencing with built-in review and flexible pacing that allows thorough concept development.

Students must achieve mastery of each level before moving on, lessons are completed at the student's pace, and plenty of review is built into courses. Multi-page lessons often take more than one session to ensure mastery.

Excellent use of visual models and manipulatives throughout the program with systematic concrete-to-abstract progression.

Uses manipulatives like counting bears, Base Ten Blocks, fraction tiles, ten frames, five frames, dot cards, and gameboards. Students learn through concrete experiences first, then transfer to pictorial and abstract representations.

Includes systematic word problem instruction but specific schema teaching approach is not detailed in reviews.

Story problems are explicitly covered in Level 1, two-step word problems are taught in Level 3, and students learn how to solve story problems in Level 2, though specific instructional methods for word problem schemas are not described.

Incorporates ongoing review and assessment but specific retrieval practice strategies are not clearly detailed.

Plenty of review is built into courses and practice to ensure mastery is accomplished with manipulatives and games. Includes 'Show What You Know' assessment sessions, though systematic retrieval practice implementation is unclear.

Includes progress tracking and interactive assessments but formal diagnostic tools are limited.

Features 'Show What You Know' interactive assessment sessions, Daily Review Tracker for skill monitoring, Progress Charts with stickers, and Math Reflection questions to identify understanding gaps. Free online placement tests are available.

The curriculum demonstrates strong conceptual foundation through concrete-pictorial-abstract progression but may have limitations in procedural fluency development.

Students learn concepts through manipulatives first, then transfer to pictorial and abstract formats. However, one reviewer noted the program doesn't appear to require memorization of all math facts, suggesting families focused on fact fluency may need supplementation.

The curriculum appears to provide clear modeling through scripted lessons but specific worked example implementation is unclear.

Teacher manuals provide thoroughly scripted lessons with step-by-step instruction, and children are gradually introduced to standard problem-solving formats, though specific worked example structures are not detailed in reviews.