Ray's For Today Arithmetic Level 5 Instructor

Ray's for Today provides you with the time-tested content of the original Ray's Arithmetic series but in a format that's easier for homeschoolers to implement! This updated series is structured into daily lessons and grade levels and provides parents with additional help on presenting lessons, helping students grasp material, and adjusting the pace to your child's learning style.

Ray's for Today retains the emphasis on oral language, mental math, and math reasoning to help students build a practical understanding of underlying principles through orderly, systematic instruction. Lessons are presented in everyday language and move through three stages of exposure, practice, and mastery. Hands-on activities and visual "walk-throughs" move students' understanding from concrete real-life examples to mental images and finally to abstract concepts. Real-life problem solving and story problems are also integrated throughout the text. Each level targets three to four essential skills, which are then reviewed and built upon in subsequent levels.

The main learning objectives for the fifth level of Ray's for Today are for students to:

be proficient at recognizing and working with numbers through the billions be proficient at multiplying and dividing by a multi-digit number be proficient at all four operations with fractions and mixed numbers be proficient with decimal concepts practice factoring and related concepts be introduced to percents and ratios

This instructor's manual explains how to use the program. Individual lessons feature the lesson objective in bold followed by bullet-pointed lessons that explain each step and include examples where needed. A section of reproducibles is included, followed by a line-listed answer key for the student book.

The Level 5 student text is not included and must be purchased separately.

344 loose-leaf pages, three-hole-punched.