On Cloud Nine: Visualizing and Verbalizing for Math

I think every teacher should own a copy of Visualizing and Verbalizing and Seeing Stars. This one was seemed to sum up more where those two books expanded ideas in great detail, especially Visualizing and Verbalizing. I mean, I'm still a believer, and I plan to keep and use this book. It's just that, I felt while reading it, that I would have to take the "gist" of this and the "gist" of that and create my own lessons to go with it. It was often vague, whereas, with V & V and Seeing Stars, I just plan to do those lessons exactly the way the book presents says. In other words, I could "visualize" the lessons better in those books as I was reading them than I could while reading On Cloud Nine.It's hard for me not to give a Nanci Bell book 5 stars cause I'm on board and a believer, but this one wasn't worth the $70 I shelled out for it.

This is an amazing program. You need only the book, if you are a classroom teacher. The materials are just typical math manipulation kit tools, nothing overly fancy about it! This is more about good teaching than more "things" to toss at a kiddo and hope that it helps the kiddo! This is brain research, folks. Read it carefully, however, to implement it with fidelity and accuracy!Happy Teaching!

I haven't read through the whole book yet; I'm working through lesson by lesson. I like the fact that it has a lesson summary at the end of each chapter. I think that their visual aids make great sense and make better sense than a lot of visual aids that I've seen, I've made my own by the way.

I have completed Visualization and Verbalization as well as Seeing Stars by Lindamood - Bell. I implement this program in my classroom.

great ideas

Excellent material!

I have had to learn a lot of different math methods over my 60 years of helping my children, grandchildren, and children of friends with their math. There are children who are smart enough but just can't grasp problems -- particularly the complex word problems they throw at children now, along with an insistence that all math must be approached as algebra. It just doesn't "work" in the brains of some kids. The person who wrote this manual understood that, and figured out a method that I think will work with those kids. I believe it is absolutely brilliant in fact.The one caveat is, that although the $100 dollar manual can be found at a much-reduced price secondhand, there are other parts to the math kit that aren't so easy to find. The kit costs over $500.00 (and some of it is way overpriced, to be frank), and it includes the manual. The best bet, if you are strapped and want to use this method by being the "tutor" yourself, is to make the learning aids. I think it can be done if you read the manual carefully and understand what the aids are. The Lindamood-Bell program also recommends that anyone who needs this math program needs to go through the Visualizing and Verbalizing program first. That will cost another $500-600 for the manual and materials. I can understand that it may be a necessity for many children who have this particular problem, but I might try the math program first and see if it helps.