CTCMath Review

Hello friends, recently my daughters had the opportunity to review the 12 Month Family Plan from CTC Math. It was such a blessing. We reviewed CTC Math last year and absolutely fell in love with it. It is our favorite math program ever!

What is CTC Math?

CTC Math is an online math tutor program that features 1,400+ video tutorials that each last approximately 4-9 minutes. This program is for K-12. CTC Math teaches the concepts of the math lesson step-by-step.

The lessons are grouped by course grade levels and then a stream of topics and then sub-topics. This way makes it extremely easy to navigate the lessons. The instructor, Pat Murray, has a true gift for teaching and my daughters loved how he broke down all the steps and how easy it was to understand him and the concepts. He has an awesome Australian accent that my girls and I adored as well. The tutorials feature really cool interactive animations that really capture and hold my daughters attention.

The program features the lessons section, a wonderful parent section, a speed skills section, settings section, search section and lastly an awards/certificates section.

The speed skills section is a great way for my daughters to improve on their math skills. They found this section to be fun. Anytime my daughters enjoy doing math is a win. 

I said it in my last review and I still feel the same. My daughters favorite part of the whole program was being able to work at their pace and being able to print out the certificates. One of the main reasons I chose to homeschool was for my daughters to work at their own pace, whether that be a slow pace or a fast pace. I'm so thankful that they have never felt rushed with this program. I love the way it eases into each topic and that they always feel comfortable to move on when ready or they have the chance to stay at the topic. It's great that the lesson tutorials are in video form and can be watched again if my daughters are having problems.


For this review, I asked my daughters to complete two lessons a day, at least three days a week. Many times they would complete more so they could print out an award certificate. The certificates definitely motivated them to learn more.


I personally loved the parents section best. I love the fact that I can log in to check the progress of each daughter. My favorite thing about this program is even if I forget to check in, I get an e-mail with a PDF file of the girl's progress for the week. I really love that! Each lesson also includes a printable lesson summary that has came in handy for us many times. I know longer wonder why the printer is printing out something without me knowing anymore. It's just my daughter printing out her lesson summary. At the end of each lesson you have the option to print the lesson results as well. Last year I created folders for each of my daughters to keep all of their math printouts in. They have continued to use them for the review this year as well. 

Final Thoughts

I really feel that this program can be used as a full curriculum or as a supplement. Like I said before,  it is our favorite math program and we are planning on using it for a very long time. I can't say enough how much we all enjoy it. I highly recommend it! 

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A+ Interactive Math ~ Review

Hi Friends, My three daughters and I had the chance to review the Family Math Package from A+ Interactive Math. In the past online math programs have proven to be very successful among my daughters and I was excited to see what this one had to offer.

What is the Family Math Package?

 A+ Interactive Math Family Math Packages are specially designed to cater to both individual & family needs. There is Access to all grade levels for each student (K1 - Algebra). You have the ability to change the grade level to fit student needs at any time. The program teaches, grades, measures, reviews and tracks. I like that the program uses multiple learning styles to fit each students individual needs.

How we used Family Math Package

I was able to sign my three daughters up with ease. They each have their own login and this makes it nice to be able to keep track of each ones work. After they sign in they have the option to view their profile or to launch their math level. Launching means that the program opens a dashboard in a new browser window.

Below is an example of what the dashboard for my oldest looks like 

As you can see from the picture above, the program features:

• Multimedia Interactive Lessons

These animated lessons make learning fun. My daughters found them easy to understand and entertaining. They really enjoyed the animations when the would get a problem correct. After completing a lesson, it shows on the top the completion date as well as the score achieved. 

• Lesson Plans

It's really great when I know what we should be doing and when. The lesson plans have been very helpful in keeping me on track. While we do get behind, it's nice to have an idea of where we need to be and what we need to do to get back on track. I also like that the lesson plans are printable. 

• Printables

The printables are another wonderful addition. While my daughters have always enjoyed doing an online math curriculum, sometimes it's also nice to have a worksheet in hand. With this program you have the option to not only print worksheets but also print Exams and Reference Sheets. 

• Ebooks

Under the Ebooks tab, you can view a full curriculum book, worksheet solution guides, and exam solution guides. It's, yet again, a helpful addition that has made using this program and learning math fun.

• Online Worksheets and Exams

There is even an option to do worksheets and exams online. We didn't do a lot of these, but I really do appreciate that they are here. I anticipate that we will be using more of these in the future.

I also really enjoy the Parent Features as well. They include:

• Instant online grading.

            It's always nice to be able to see a grade after a lesson is completed and my daughters love            being able to see how well they did immediately after a lesson. So this is a very nice feature. 

• Parental controls that allow parents to lock solution guides.

• Progress reports that identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.

The progress reports have been nice. I'm not use to making my own progress reports. When a program offers the opportunity to easily see them, It makes me excited. 

• The ability to enter students scores to track progress for all work completed offline.

Final Thought

There are a ton of lessons for us to still do. This is a very wonderful program and we are looking forward to using it more in the future. If you are looking for a complete math program than I recommend A+ Interactive Math.

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Free Software Download:

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Free Single Grade Level: 

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Free eBook: 

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Additional Information:

Top 12 Reasons to use "Adaptive Placement Test & Lessons" program: http://www.aplushomeschool.com/2015/03/top-12-reasons-to-use-adaptive-math-placement-test.html

Top 12 Reasons to use "Family Math package" program: http://www.aplushomeschool.com/2015/03/top-12-reasons-to-use-family-math-packages.html

They will start a 2-week 40% to 50% off sale on their “Family Math Packages” and “Adaptive Placement Testing w/ Lessons” program on Monday May 4th. 

Start Date: 5/4/2015 – End Date: 5/18/2015

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