Horizons Math 2 Boxed Set

Love Horizons workbooks.

I love Horizons math! My mom used it for us when we were kids and I'm currently using for my kids. Only complaint is sometimes I feel there are too many worksheet, so I just skip them here and there. But otherwise we'll put together and easy to teach with little to no experience or prep work!

We are returning this item. There are SO many problems per page, that there isn't enough room to write an answer and DEFINITELY not enough room to do regrouping like the examples shown in the book.
When I buy a workbook for my child, it is with the understanding that he will do his work within the book. The suggestion that he write all of the equations on separate paper, do all the work there, and then come back to record an answer in the workbook is outrageous. Workbooks are consumables and they should have the space to be used as such.

Great for parents, just open and teach. No lesson planning. It goes at an easy pace with lots of repetition for skill learning. Lessons are a good length for this age. Not too short not too long. I recommend it.

I love how it is a spiral math. Where you continue to learn and build on the skills. You don’t use once and forget them.

We have used Horizons for a while. It works for our homeschool family.

I purchased Horizons grade 2 for my second grader last fall We had been using a popular curriculum that used a mastery approach and it was killing my daughter's love of math Her eyes lit up when I showed her Horizons She really enjoyed having lots of different types of problems to work in one lesson We found there were actually too many problems per page usually and just crossed some out I would have liked to see more word problems but overall I think Horizons covers a great cross-section of math topics And it is definitely advanced My daughter is doing beginning third grade work now (multiplication) and we only finished the first part of the grade 2 bookI did not find the teacher's manual to be particularly useful at all I was hoping for games and fun ways to teach concepts not just 'review flashcards with student'Overall we really liked it but I'd skip getting the teacher's manual at this level

Horizons 2nd grade math program was enthusiastically welcomed by my 7-year-old after using a different program since Kindergarten At first glance she loved the colorful pictures connect-the-dots crossword puzzles and secret code puzzles in the workbooks As she curiously thumbed through the books she was a little nervous that it looked too hard for her but I told her just to take one lesson at a time and she has progressed very well and with a great attitude Horizons seems to be advanced in the presentation of multiple digit addition and subtraction Roman numerals multiplication and place value compared to some of the other spiral-learning 2nd grade curricula It teaches skip-counting by 1s through 10s ordinal numbers to 100 simple equations fractions telling time to the minute Roman numerals tally marks money calendar graphs ratio area perimeter volume decimals and much more Our family and friends have been impressed at how quickly and confidently my daughter can work multiplication facts and four-digit addition and subtraction (with regrouping) problems One friend told me that the work my 2nd grader is doing in Horizons 2 looks like its on the same level as the math her 3rd grader is doing This program is easy to use because it is very well organized--the teachers manual has two parts Part One has lesson plans manipulatives needed for each lesson and activity suggestions and Part Two contains reduced-size student pages with the answers and a section of worksheets and charts for supplemental practice Having the answer key handy was a real time saver for us and we did use some of the worksheets but not all of them (for the most part the workbooks contain plenty of practice) The teachers manual gives simple ideas for presenting a topic For example when teaching multiple digit addition and subtracting with regrouping it recommends using base ten blocks to illustrate the concept (and if the teacher does not have base ten blocks it gives ideas for making your own place value manipulatives out of drinking straws) Although the teachers manual is helpful in many ways at times it is not very thorough in explaining how to teach different concepts step by step For someone who is mathematically minded that would probably not present a problem but I have had to use math websites online for additional ways to explain tricky concepts such as converting Roman numerals to Arabic numerals We have also supplemented this curriculum with file folder games and CDs with math songs for further practice in addition subtraction skip counting and multiplication Another minor thing about this curriculum that could use revision is that there are no clear instructions for making the flashcards to go with the lessons The manual tells the teacher to make flashcards for different topics like measurement conversions and time equivalents but it doesn't give detailed directions for making these flashcards so the teacher just has to figure it out This is not a big deal but it does take up precious time! Other than making the flashcards and gathering the manipulatives for each lesson teacher preparation time is minimal The Horizons math workbooks are very inviting to visual learners who dont mind a lot of color and information on one page To me some of the pages are a bit cluttered but for my daughter the busy  colorful pages help hold her attention and make the learning seem more fun She likes that there are several different topics within each lessonit is definitely not boring! For example Lesson 140 covers sequence equations addition subtraction symmetry solids and multiplication all in the same lesson For a child (or a parent) who becomes easily frustrated with switching gears quickly this would not work well For us the way Horizons presents challenging math topics in incremental steps is one of its best features It continually reviews the topics throughout the year to help the students to remember the information Horizons math is priced very reasonably compared to other popular math curricula We plan to continue using Horizons math all the way through 6th grade!

I have found Horizons math to be thorough and enjoyable Lessons are colorful and include several different exercises for example a single lesson may cover time money addition multiplication and word problems This keeps each function fresh in the student's mind The only problem I've found is that each set is about a year ahead of my child's level so in 4th grade she's using level 3 etc Also additional practice in multiplication has been necessary Overall it's the best program I've found thus far