These worksheets are meant to be fun and easy, but you are learning some serious algebra along the way.
No matter what you are using right now to teach math to your children, you can start using these worksheets to liven up your child’s week. They work for kids aged 11 up through high school. So much of algebra begins long before your child ever cracks open an algebra textbook.
Once your child begins algebra and opens that textbook, their eyes might just glaze over or they might hit a spot where things just do not make sense. This curriculum can be used by you, along with your child, to get past those rough spots in their current curriculum, or it can be used as a stand-alone algebra course that will take your child through Algebra I and Algebra II.
The Doodles Do AlgebraTM curriculum is based on the algebra that American and British children learned in the 1700’s and early 1800’s. Kids in those days learned all of algebra, geometry and the math of surveying by the time they were done with 7th or 8th grade. You will see that learning algebra this way, it is not hard or difficult to understand.
It is easy and in fact it covers subjects that some kids today don’t learn until they get to college!
So relax, have fun, learn algebra the old fashioned way – one page a day – from DoodlePoodle and his friends!
Where can you get these algebra worksheets?
These worksheets from the Doodles Do AlgebraTM curriculum are part of a set of lessons which start a child out with a series of mental math exercises. Before kids learns about unknowns and how to simplify polynomials, it is really helpful to give them familiarity and confidence “mentally” solving problems that usually are taught as algebra problems with written steps.
Head over to TeachersPayTeachers and you can pick these lessons up for a song!
Why did I write this math curriculum?
I discovered, after fielding years and years of repeated forms of the “why do I have to know how to do this?” questions, that children just take to algebra straight away when I took them through a number of mental math problems first. It was also quite surprising how easily they (and I) could do the problems without pencil and paper.
Why is this series unique?
The Doodles Do AlgebraTM series of lessons is designed for minimal teacher involvement. But when you do need to step in and help your child, the teacher’s edition gives you multiple ways of explaining each topic in algebra, step by step. That way you can help your child, no matter how much algebra you know. We give you the tools to guide your child through and you might learn some algebra yourself along the way, and have fun doing it too!
You can pick up the entire series of seven books at LuLu Press, or purchase individual lessons and extra practice sheets from TeachersPayTeachers.
Most everything the child needs to learn comes from the Doodle cartoon that explains the lesson of the day. I used this entire series to teach my own children Algebra I and Algebra II, but individual worksheets are wonderful for reinforcing concepts you are teaching with an alternate curricula. As a side note, my kids like to color in the Doodle Cartoon character each day and give them hats and crazy facial expressions. It is a fantastic way to etch the algebra concept of the day into their memory.