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Wisdom's 7 Pillars:
Creation - Design & Order

Our Creation: Design & Order Pillar covers what are typically called the "sciences". We study God's Design in His physical Creation and His patterns and Order in quantities and magnitude.

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Biblical Foundations & Rudiments of Order

Our favorite resource for laying the foundation of Order is A Guide to American Christian Education for the Home and School by James Rose, in the chapters "Arithmetic from the Principle Approach" by James Kilkenny and "Algebra: from the Principloe Approach" by David Booton. You'll see this work recommended over and over in our Rudiments sections. It is a great resource, very highly recommended, to gain an understanding of the Biblical Foundations and Rudiments of many subjects. This is the resource for gaining the Big Picture in God's plan for each area of learning.

Encyclopedia of Bible Truths by Ruth Haycock has finally been republished! We have used and recommended this from the beginning, when it was 4 individual volumes. then it went to a single, all-in-one book, and now is back in 4 volumes again. These books are like a Topical Bible for school subjects, giving Biblical concepts (principles) and related verses for various content areas within each subject. The four volumes are: Lanugage Arts/English, Social Studies, Science/Mathematics, and Fine Arts/Health, and there is a slight discount for buying the 4 Volume Set. This is the resource for relating every area of learning to the Bible.

The Noah Plan Mathematics Curriculum Guide is more extensive for actual curriculum planning than either of the above books. It gives curriculum overviews for each level of learning, the American Christian philosophy of mathematics, and the methodlogy for applying it. This is the resource for building individual lessons after laying the foundations.

For parents and older teens we recommend James Nickel's Mathematics: Is God Silent? for understanding mathematics from a Biblical worldview. You can also read an analysis of Saxon math wirtten by Mr. Nickel on his website.

General Resources for Order (Arithmetic/Mathematics)

There are several good programs available for teaching arithmetic/mathematics. However, none of them incorporate the Biblical Foundations. We are working on a basic overview, Freedom & Simplicity in Order, to help you put together your own program, or at least guide you in pulling in the Biblical Foundations, Rudiments, and Principles into other programs. Also, James Nickel (author of Mathematics: Is God Silent?) is writing a math text for Junior High that will include all these components.

In the meantime, here are some programs that we've found to be good, and you can incorporate the Foundational elements fairly easily into them. Ray's Arithmetic, a classic from the 1800's, has been the Principle Approach recommendation for many years. It includes Principles and their definitions. It is a great program! However, it is not set up the way we are used to in modern programs. No games, bells, whistles or workbook pages - just math instuction and problems to solve. It has plenty of practice exercises, mostly real life (word/story) problems that the students have to reason through (which is a good thing). Each aspect of arithmetic is defined, the principles given, and the rules spelled out, step by step. Everything (outside of the Biblical Foundations) needed in a good math program is here, and at a super price - all levels up through 8th grade at less than the cost of 1 or 2 years of other programs.

Making Math Meaningful by David Quine (Cornerstone Curriculum) is good at teaching by concepts, and has Christian content if not it's Foundations. It presents math in real life problems, and natural story format. This program goes on through Algebra I and Geometry. The books are student directed beginning in Level 5. Making Math Meaningful is not as explicit in definitions and principles as Ray's, but is very good in lifestyle presentation and application of concepts, not rote memorization. It teaches students to reason through the problems. Very "Charlotte Mason" method friendly.

Math U See is another good curriculum for teaching by concepts. It utilizes a lot of story problems, but still in the format of worksheets. The big plus for Math U See is its manipulatives (one type) that are used throughout the entire program. At the time we began with it we had an older daughter who still needed the "hands on" experience. We greatly appreciated having a program with this built in. (Our experience with MUS is with their Classic materials.)

RightStart math is the only program we give a recommendation for that we really haven't used much ourselves. It is the program now recommended by the Principle Approach® (for the younger grades, and then switch to Ray's). It is based on abacus work rather than blocks as manipulatives. We are utilizing their Activities for AL Abacus, which is their original K-4 program. Their program is now redesigned into individual level programs for K-4 plus geometry. RightStart also has a Math Card Games Book with over 300 math games that can be utilized with any math curriculum you are using.

But, I still believe that nothing more than the suggestions presented in Ruth Beechick's book The Three R's is necessary for beginners. (Well, of course, along with introducing the Biblical Foundations and Rudiments.) This book is a new format for what was previously 3 booklets. The section, An Easy Start in Arithmetic, presents math naturally amidst living real life, and explains how to teach the concepts necessary for beginners up through third grade or so. From there you can go into Ray's (or Making Math Meaningful, if you choose).

For getting the facts down, we like Math It. However, it is pricey. In more recent years we've made our own facts game. It will be included in Freedom & Simplicity™ in Creation: Order, when that resource is released.

Ray's Arithmetic

"If you want to teach your child how to think, as well as math, this is an excellent curriculum. If you are willing to be involved as a parent and help your child figure out those challenging problems (and believe me, some of them are challenging! They are teaching me a lot of new things!!) then you will be happy with this curriculum. If you are willing to go at your own pace, realizing that your child is learning valuable skills and not worry about what those kids in public school are doing, then this is a great curriculum. This curriculum is not one of those that fills your kids with facts. Ray's teaches your child a fact and then has them use it, along with other facts they have used, to solve problems from real life."

comment from Shelley Sexton,
a Ray's user

Algebra 1 Student Book
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