How To Get Started with Brick Math

We get lots of questions from parents who want to try Brick Math with their children, either for homeschooling or as a fun supplement at home.  They often ask how to determine where their child should start, what books to purchase, and ​what bricks to use. Here's a guide to getting started with Brick Math:

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Brick Math basics: Brick Math is based on teaching individual math subjects. The series starts with Counting and Cardinality, and works its way up to Advanced Measurement and Geometry. There are 11 subjects available that track the typical K - 6 curriculum. You can view all of them here: 
​https://www.brickmathseries.com/products.html
To get a sample lesson of any subject, click on the subject, click on any version of the book, then click "Download Sample Lesson" or "Look Inside!"
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Determining what subjects to start with: If your child has already starting learning with another math curriculum, determine what he/she has mastered and move on from there. For example, the typical K-2nd grade curriculum includes Counting, Addition, and Subtraction, plus part of Basic Measurement (telling time). If your child has mastered those, move to the subjects that are typically in the 3rd-4th grade curriculum: Multiplication, Division, and Basic Fractions, plus most of Basic Measurement.

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Teacher and Student Editions: We suggest you buy the Teacher and Student Edition of each subject. You will use the Teacher Edition to guide your child through the lessons, and your child will use the Student Edition to draw their brick models, answer questions, and complete chapter assessments, so you will feel confident that they are ready to move on.  Each child learning with Brick Math needs their own Student Edition.
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Print books or PDFs: Either version will work, but you will need to print out all the pages of the Student books for your child to write in. The books average about 80 pages in length. The books are in full color so the illustrations of the brick models are easy to understand. This is more important for the Teacher books, which include illustrations of the brick models you will make as teacher, and of the models you can expect your child to make. Since many people don’t have easy access to a color printer, or find color printing much more expensive, the print book may be a less expensive alternative to a PDF if you plan to print out most of the pages.
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Bricks needed: You can use your own LEGO bricks if you have plenty of them, or you can buy our Brick Set, which includes all the bricks needed for the entire Brick Math program. Every chapter has a list of all the bricks you need for that chapter, and there is a suggested brick inventory for the whole program in each book and on our website at 
https://www.brickmathseries.com/uploads/7/1/0/2/7102647/brickinventory.pdf. 

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More resources: The Brick Math website includes lots of videos to help you get comfortable with the program and see the Brick Math method being taught by the author of the series. 
​https://www.brickmathseries.com/videos.html 
For additional information, check the website section for parents/homeschool: 
​https://www.brickmathseries.com/for-parentshomeschool.html