I bought Mighty Mind and Geoboards with workbooks. Right now I'm looking at how Waldorf form drawing grows into Waldorf geometry lessons in middle school. Very pretty!
http://waldorfessentials.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Waldorfgeometry.pdf


I subscribed to Bedtime Math. It's making the math facts become automatic. We don't do it all the time, but we still do it.
We just got a place value game we got out of a workbook. It has a spinner made from a paperclip hanging off of a brad. One spinner is for place values up to one-hundred-million. One spinner is for the number you write in that place value. You fill them in until you're done and then you read it.
I don't know how old your kid is, so you might be past all this. This video explained dividing to my kid. Check out this video on YouTube:



The Apple Fractions book led to Kumon fractions and decimals. My kid reads the book at the table while I cut the apples into fractions and then bake a pie.

You're right about not knowing what they'll need or outgrow and the price of books and all, so I do a lot of teaching with a whiteboard, crayons, and paper. I read him stuff off the internet and show him videos on youtube. We do have the old singapore book set.

From what I've read, don't buy the hands on equations for how much use you'd get for what it costs. Buy Jacobs Algebra instead, which is a gentle introduction. (I haven't bought it yet). And I remember what Grinnity said once, buy middle school books and take as long as you need to work up to them and take it slow, rather than spinning your wheels and buying stuff they outgrow too quickly. Also check the math section in the non-fiction in the children's section of the library. I have found living math books there. (not life of fred, or anything).

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