Mr. D Math Consumer Math for Homeschoolers

One of the perks of homeschooling is having the freedom to teach what you want and how you want to. It has given us the opportunity to be sure our children can write in cursive (something they don’t teach in public school anymore), it has allowed us to slow down and take more time when they are struggling and to skip along when they know the material. It has allowed us to focus on practical skills like home economics, shop class, and consumer math for homeschoolers.

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Mr. D Online Classes

If you aren’t familiar with Mr. D Math online classes, and are homeschooling a high schooler, I highly recommend you check him out!

He offers more than just math classes! While Mr. D Math does offer an interactive online classroom experience in High School Math including Pre-Algebra, Algebra I & II, Geometry, Pre-Calc and Consumer Math, he also has things like study skills, ASL, and economics!

Mr. D Math Consumer Math for Homeschoolers

Mr. D Math Consumer Math for homeschoolers is a full credit, online course for high school students in grades 10-12. The course contains 31 lessons and is self-paced so students can complete it in a timeframe that works for them.

This Consumer Math course for homeschoolers is designed to fulfill a general math credit for high school students. The projects in the course are designed to have students apply math skills to real-world situations, not the mechanics of how to do math. Students will also learn goal-setting and time-management skills during this course.

Some of the Topics Covered in Consumer Math

• Time Management
• Opening a Bank Account
• Credit Cards
• Buying a Car
• Intro to the Stock Market
• Understanding Compound Interest
• Buying Food and Appliances
• Nutrition
• Career Assessment
• Paying Taxes
• Budgeting
• Insurance
• Home Buying or Renting
• Retirement and more!

Features of Note in Consumer Math for Homeschoolers

1. Self-Paced

While there is a certain advantage to live classes, I more often am drawn to self-paced ones because they fit seamlessly into our busy schedule. This is especially true with my teenagers who work independently from myself and each other. Being self-paced gives our teens the opportunity to manage their own time, which is one of the big skills (time management) we work towards as they grow into high school and beyond.

2. Combines Learning Resources and Techniques

This Mr. D Math course offers a combination of Note Outline sheets, worksheets, videos, interactive quizzes, and hands-on projects. It’s great for kids of many learning styles, offering a wide variety of engaging content in various forms.

In the photo above my daughter is working through a test in the course on the iPad and has her course notes up on her phone for reference (They are allowed to use their notes for tests).

Another thing Consumer Math for homeschoolers does is combine real life tasks with the math concepts each requires, offering specific lessons and activities for each real life task, and also specific lessons for the math concepts needed. This way students get plenty of practice at the math required for these tasks.

Some of the math covered includes:

• slope
• compound interest
• percents
• sales tax
• work with fractions
• calculating body mass index
• and more!

3. Uses Real Life to Teach

One of the key components of Consumer Math for homeschoolers is projects. It’s one of the best things about this course! Students who take this course not only get the “book work”, but they are assigned real life tasks that correspond to each topic.

Some of the Real Life Tasks (projects):

• researching banks
• writing checks
• working with recipes
• writing their own resume
• and more!

4. The Signature Ease of Use that All Mr. D Math Courses Possess

Every Mr. D Math course we have used follows the same organizational format, making it easy to move from one class to another without having to relearn the lesson format.

The online platform has an easy to navigate side bar containing all the course material. It’s a virtual outline of the course in which you can easily click through to each section. And the course tracks progress so you can see how far along your student is, what they have completed, how far they have left to go.

More Mr. D Math Reviews

I have had the pleasure of using many of the Mr. D Math courses in our homeschool. I have been so happy with the quality of content, how easy they are to use, and the ease of access to help if needed.

Here are a few more reviews of Mr. D Math courses we have used:

Teaching Study Skills for Homeschoolers – in this course student will learn notetaking from both test and lecture, how to create mast study guides, creating study tools, memorization tips, how to maximize test performance and more!

Self-Paced ASL – Mr. D Math offers ASL I, II, and III!

Economics for High School – this is a one semester course covering topics like supply/demand, producers/consumers, currency/credit, economic recession, monopolies and more!

Mr. D Math Live SAT Boot Camp – In the SAT Boot Camps your student will learn valuable test prep strategies, have access to practice tests, learn critical thinking skills, and more!

Mr. D Math College and Career Readiness – this course tackles topics like finding your learning style, career research, resume writing, college application writing, leadership skills and more!

Homeschool High School Algebra with Mr. D Math – offered as both a live and self-paced course, with access to live extra help sessions each weeks, this Algebra course (and all is courses) is wonderful if you or your student want direct access to a teacher.