The Standard Deviants - Super School Pack (Algebra 1, Spanish 1, Basic Math, Physics 1)

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My 11 year old son really needed some math review - he's a slow learner and I thought this might be more fun than some of the rote memorization. Well - he enjoyed it but also thought one of the actresses was "hot" and that totally distracted him. He was able to learn some but spent much of his time watching for his "favorite girl". So while this could be of good use for some kids, it didn't work so good for him.

I love the standard deviants. These were longer programs. Some of the newer standard deviant dvds are short, but these are not.

I bought this DVD for my third-grade twins who are having difficulty memorizing math facts, and don't quite understand the relation between these math facts and the real world. I thought this DVD would be perfect, explaining basic math facts with humor and real life examples. But their explanations are way over the heads of this age group. In explaining the concept of "carrying over" while adding, for instance, here is what is said and written out on the screen: "Carrying over means you take the digit in the tensplace of the digit place sum, and carry over that digit to the next digit place to the left in your addition problem. You do this whenever the sum amount in the digit place is greater than nine."Yeah, *I* get it, but it is not the simplest way to present it to an elementary grade child.I'm not certain what grade level this series is for -- perhaps middle school and above? -- but definitely not for those just starting out.

Wish it was advertised like that. Will be most beneficial to those individuals reviewing for SAT's. Thanks for delivering. Would do business again.

I must say that the video was entertaining to watch.Perhaps it may have appeared goofy to some looking for a more classroom structured type video but I picked some things that I may have forgotten or was never taught in class because the public school system is not as regimented enough to prepare our children to suceed in higher education.therefore we get discouraged and give up.And yes there were some pretty women in the video i have to keep it real.But not to the point where one become distracted unless you are at a pubescent stage of life.In conclusion, this video deserves two thumbs up for it's effort to educate as well as entertain the masses like myself who bought the video.

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Standard Deviants DVD's are the Best made only if they are the 2001 or older ones not these new ones that are updated 2005 and up. It looks like the Goldhil Educational bought out Standard Deviants and changed every thing that was good with the old DVD's and change the way you buy them, they cut them up into smaller DVD's so you can buy just what math learning you want like addition or just fractions, or you can buy the full DVD like this one.Don't wast you time and money, keep looking for the old version onesThe new ones have little teaching and poor skits, poor humor.