Math

The Good and the Beautiful is discontinuing its beloved, best-selling original math line, and we need to clear out room in our warehouses for a new math product line. Thus, all K–3 The Good and the Beautiful physical math course sets, course books, and math boxes are now 40% off! Don’t miss your chance to grab our amazing math boxes packed with manipulatives and math games at 40% off! Purchase below.

By August 1st, 2021, we will be releasing Levels K through 5 of a new math line titled Simply Good and Beautiful Math. These thorough, academically solid courses will align more closely with our mission of 1) making homeschooling more affordable (math course sets will be $49.99, including manipulatives) and 2) making homeschool less overwhelming.

On March 1st, 2021, we will release more details and extensive sample lessons for these ground-breaking new math courses. Because this product is still under development, and there are adjustments during piloting, we can’t release as much information as we’d like, but here is some information we can share:

• Our amazing math team has Simply Good and Beautiful Math K Through 5 deep into piloting with over 60 families. With the overwhelmingly positive response from our pilot families, we feel confident this new math line will be able to bless many more families.
• Simply Good and Beautiful Math courses are completely new (not just new editions)—not a single paragraph will be the same. Our current math boxes, calendars, etc. will not work with the new courses as we will have entirely new manipulatives.
• Simply Good and Beautiful Math levels 6 through 8 will be released in summer of 2022.
• The Math 4 Part 1 Course Book (original math line) and upcoming Math 4 Part 2 Course Book (original math line) will not be discounted at any point, but these course books will be discontinued when they go out of stock. (When Math 4 Part 2 (original math line) releases in March 2021, we will be selling printed course books at the original price until they sell out.) Musical Multiplication is not discounted and will not be discontinued.

Why the change to a new math line? We will go into more details on March 1st, but here are the main reasons:

1) We have found it is not necessary to take 5-7 pages to teach every lesson and math concept like our original math does (even though it does it so well!). Our new approach is academically thorough but much more concise. It still uses all learning styles and is packed with beauty and meaning. Games, activities, and stories are still included but in less overwhelming and lengthy ways. The new approach will make homeschooling multiple children incredibly more easy and effective in a shorter amount of required parent time.

2) The large amount of moving parts and manipulatives in our original math makes it overwhelming for some families and hard to keep children’s focus as the parent searches for manipulatives, game instructions, place value charts, certain numbered cards, calendars, etc. Simply Good and Beautiful Math has fewer manipulatives, but uses them in very effective and fun ways, and the layout streamlines all instruction into one course book.

3) Our original math is our highest priced K–8 product and our lowest profitable product. It also takes up by far the most space in our warehouse and the most time from warehouse, purchasing, and inventory employees. It is not sustainable, and we determined we needed to discontinue the math in favor of a new, improved product or raise the price (which we know is already outside many family budgets) to $159 per math course set. This cost is not in line with our mission to make homeschooling affordable, but with Simply Good and Beautiful Math, we can offer an affordable, amazing math program for just $49.99 for each course! 

In addition to releasing extensive samples and answering additional questions about the new Simply Good and Beautiful Math courses on March 1st, we will also be making a huge, astonishing announcement about this new math line. So stay tuned!

All clearance items, including discounted Math, are final sale. While supplies last; offer not valid on prior purchases. Discount amounts are subject to future change without notice.  For more information and answers to frequently asked questions, click here.

Note: Unlike our language arts courses, our math course levels closely follow typical public school grade levels.