Compare Teaching Textbooks with us
Teaching Textbooks is a homeschool math app that teaches and grades on its own. Math with us is one subject in a full curriculum, with lessons built around your child's interests and projects that come back with written feedback.
A math app or a whole curriculum
Teaching Textbooks is a homeschool math app that runs on any device and works offline for up to six lessons. Its courses run from Math 3 through Pre-Calculus, and the software reads each problem and hint aloud. Lessons are short and self-paced, and most students finish a course in a year.
Math is one subject in our full school year, and every subject runs the same way.
Where your child starts
Teaching Textbooks supplies printable math placement tests. The parent gives the test and marks it with the included answer key to decide which published course the child should start.
To start your child where they actually are, we write a placement test for each subject. It has 25 questions, or 12 for younger learners, and it adapts as your child answers.
From every answer, we estimate where your child is solid but not yet finished, and that's where they start. Each subject is placed on its own, so your child might begin in the middle of fourth-grade math and the beginning of fifth-grade reading. In grades 3 to 12, a child who prefers paper can print the free placement test, then upload a photo of the answer sheet for grading.
What a school day looks like
The child opens a short lesson and works through math problems with spoken hints. Up to six lessons can be completed offline in Teaching Textbooks.
Our Parent Dashboard lays out today's lessons by subject. You can build the week around your family's hours and print it for the fridge.
Interactive articles weave in your child's interests, with images and videos made for them. Reading checks confirm understanding, then your child applies the idea in a project, such as optimizing lap times for F1 or working out a rocket’s fuel load.
When your child gets stuck
In Teaching Textbooks, a stuck student can use hints and the step-by-step audiovisual solution for each problem, and families can call a tutor line.
Our Always-On Mentor sits beside every reading and project, so help is there the moment your child needs it.
The mentor also steps in on its own when your child seems stuck, explains the idea another way, and can make it visual by drawing on its board. In a reading check or a project, it guides your child's thinking without giving the answer away.
Learning to keep a notebook
From Grade 3, our readings offer an optional Notebook guide to help your child organize their learning. It encourages lesson headings and unit labels, and the printable guide offers tips for taking notes in their own words rather than copying the article.
The guide encourages your child to note where they struggled and how they got past it. One tip is to star a useful takeaway, then gather those takeaways into a review page. When your child scans and uploads their notebook pages, we help them remember those ideas and shape practice problems around the places they struggled.
Who grades the work
Teaching Textbooks scores each problem when the child enters an answer. A daily progress email keeps the parent informed, with those grades coming from the software's shared math course.
We grade everything your child submits as soon as they submit it, so grading never lands on you. When your child gets something wrong, we help them work through it, and projects come back with feedback so they can revise them.
Records, state paperwork, and the transcript
Teaching Textbooks keeps an online gradebook for each math course. Parents can print those grades for their own records, alongside whatever the child studies in their other subjects.
At TheHomeschoolingCompany, your child's school record builds as they work: daily check-ins log attendance, and everything they finish is saved automatically. Attendance logs and learning summaries are ready to export, and we draft the documents your state asks for from that same record, including portfolios with real work samples.
Our high school transcript builds from completed work, with courses, letter grades, credits, and GPA calculated for you.
Moving from Teaching Textbooks to us
School in a Box includes up to 12 subjects, from the core to custom electives on anything your child is curious about. Single Subject covers one course, if you would rather start there.
Start the 14-day trial and choose School in a Box or Single Subject.
Pick your child's subjects, including any topics they have been asking to learn more about.
Your child takes a placement in each subject, and their whole curriculum is built around them.
Other questions
- Can a child younger than Grade 3 learn math with you?
- Yes. Kindergarten through Grade 2 is spoken: your child hears each short lesson and answers out loud, with an adult nearby.
- Can my child retake math placement?
- Yes. Your child can retake placement in one subject while their other courses carry on, and completed work stays saved.
- Can my child work from paper?
- Yes. Lessons, reading checks, and projects can be done on paper. Your child scans and uploads the finished pages for the same detailed feedback as online work.
- Can we use ESA funds?
- We are approved in Arizona, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah. Program rules apply.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Let your child explain the mathematics in a setting they care about, with written feedback on their reasoning.
$149/month per child after the trial.