 Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be about teaching textbooks. You guys, I told you in our end of the year homeschool review that teaching textbooks kind of saved our homeschool the last third of our homeschool year. And I had a lot of messages and a lot of comments, kind of about that. So I wanted to come on here and talk to you about teaching textbooks and then maybe show you a little bit inside it, kind of behind the scenes, maybe even let Emily tell you what she thinks of it. We just kind of wanted to try to tell you guys about it. So we decided to try teaching textbooks again because they had switched to the 4.0, which is fantastic. It now means that you can use teaching textbooks not only on a computer, but also on a mobile device, which means we can use it on the go if we ever get to go anywhere again. When we start car schooling again, when the world opens back up, you can take your math with you, which was a fantastic option for us. I also really liked that it had been upgraded. The interface was different. And so we just wanted to give it a new try, see what we thought about it. And well, like I said, we were butting heads and we were having too much togetherness. So having math taught to her by somebody else was a fantastic option in my opinion. And it worked fabulously. Emily really, really loved it. She enjoyed it. She enjoyed the colors and the characters. She likes that they read everything aloud to her. She likes the demonstrations. The lessons are concise, but thorough, but they're also not super long. She can do them in less than 30 minutes a day, which is really great. I have found her confidence is better than it has ever been in math this year because of teaching textbooks. I've watched her math confidence and just kind of like that light bulb moment almost kind of come on and happen this year because of it. So it was a great, great choice for our homeschool year, especially this year when I just needed somebody else to teach it. I love that I still have a lot of control over it too. I can see in the teacher's grade book where she's at, what she's doing. We have a rule that if she makes less than a 90, she has to come and tell me so that we can go over it together. I mean, 90 or above, she missed one or two questions, okay, but if she makes a 90 or below, she has to tell me right then. And so I can go in, I can see what she missed. I can reset it and let her try again. I can delete the lesson and we can go through it together step by step. I can print the ebook so that we can do it on paper because maybe she just needed the pen and paper side of it. There's so many different options that are available to us with teaching textbooks. And one of those is even a tutor. If you really, really get stuck, if me and her can't figure it out, which we haven't had to do that yet, but there is that option available as well with teaching textbooks. So it has been a fantastic math program for us. I have loved everything about it and I'm pretty sure she has to, but I'm gonna let her be the one to tell you what she thinks about it. And then we're gonna show you a little bit inside. I love teaching textbooks because there are so many cool things about it. You can have a buddy and you can change its background in this new version. The cool thing is that you can do it on the go or do it on your computer, which is also really cool. Like if we're doing our errands, I can just bring my tablet and I can go on teaching textbooks and do it on the go. Lesson 68, comparison word problems. Today's lesson is about word problems where you have to compare two things. Here's our first problem. Tommy caught nine fly balls. Dave only caught two. How many more fly balls did Tommy catch? Notice the words how many more. Those words are a clue that we're supposed to compare the number of fly balls Tommy caught with the number of fly balls Dave caught. And the way to do it is to subtract. You just subtract nine minus two. Why don't you go ahead? So Tommy caught seven more fly balls than Dave. Whenever you have to compare two numbers and figure out how much more one is than the other, you always subtract the numbers. Here's another comparing problem. This one's a little bit different. Gina has seven more buttons on her book bag than Tammy. If Gina has 18 buttons, how many does Tammy have? This time the problem tells us how many more. It says that Gina has seven more buttons than Tammy on her book bag. And we know Gina has 18. So the way to figure out how many Tammy has is to subtract again. We need to basically find the difference between 18 and seven. Why don't you go ahead and subtract? That's right. So Tammy must have 11 buttons on her book bag. And that's the answer. The most important word in this problem was more. The problem says that Gina has seven more buttons than Tammy. The word more is usually a clue that you need to subtract in a problem. Other words to watch out for are larger or smaller or taller or shorter or older or younger or higher or lower. When you see any of those words in a problem that probably means that you should subtract. Here's one more example. Veronica bought a picture frame that was 12 inches tall. Rochelle bought a frame that was five inches shorter. How many inches tall is Rochelle's frame? The word shorter is our clue that we need to subtract on this one. What we need to do is 12 minus five. Why don't you go ahead? Excellent. So the answer here is seven. And since the measurements in the problem are in inches, we know that Rochelle's frame has to be seven inches tall. That's actually not very tall because an inch is just about the size of a paper clip. So Rochelle's frame is as tall as seven paper clips. It's pretty short.