Testimonials
I was principal
of a high school in Washington D.C. where we used the Math Bootcamp/
Math Deployment program for three years. The students all arrived
at high school several years behind in mathematics and lacking
in basic skills. The students were not ready for high school
mathematics. We started them in the Bootcamp/Deployment program
and they became successful.
A colleague,
a retired Naval Officer, teaches Naval JROTC at an alternative
high school in the District of Columbia. He had several students
who wanted to enlist in the military, but could not, due to low
mathematics scores on the entrance examination, the ASVAB. He
started tutoring his students using the Boot Camp program, and
many of them improved sufficiently to pass the ASVAB, and thus
academically qualify for enlistment in the United States Armed
Forces.
The reason
the program works, while many traditional mathematic approaches
fail, is because of its organization. It logically sequences
and connects the mathematical concepts so that students understand
the mathematics instead of just memorizing a bunch of confusing
rules. It also reinforces earlier concepts as students advance
to new work. As students advance through the program, they begin
to develop confidence in their mathematical abilities, something
they had lacked for years. Many students have returned to visit
us and have stated that it was the mathematics that they learned
through this program that allowed them to be successful in college.
Lt Col William
Dexter
Washington, DC
I would wholeheartedly
recommend Superphonics to homeschooling parents, as well as those
wishing to overcome the underemphasis on phonics in their childrens'
school curricula, and to schools interested in state-of-the-art
phonics insttruction. My younger daughter, especially, is a walking
testimonial to the program, and my wife has already referred
some of those impressed with her skills to Mr. Lewis's program.
Carl Goode
President,
Empowering Minds Foundation
My son, Alex,
was given a test battery that came with the Sockcamp/Bootcamp/Deployment
series. I was appalled. Alex failed every test down through the
first grade. He could not add, subtract, multiply, or divide,
even with single digits. He could not recognize a simple number
when he saw it, could not write one if dictated, and could not
read one in words. And more advanced things - forget it. You
name it, he couldn't do it.
Even though
Mr. Lewis's books did not usually deal directly with the things
Alex, was studying in school, Alex has improved immensely in
school math. He now understands what he's being taught (since
he's mastered the basics through Mr. Lewis's books), something
he never was able to do in the past. Math is no longer an unscalable
mountain for Alex. He takes it in stride.
Alex passed
the standardized test he'd failed the year before - with a lot
of room to spare, and also comfortably passed his school math
course's final and the course itself and qualified for Algebra.
I would very
enthusiastically refer Mr. Lewis's books and approaches to others.
I have already done so, in fact. I am proud also of Alex, who
now believes in himself. For the first time in a while, he's
academically eligible to play soccer, his passion and gift. He's
a much happier kid.
Irene
Gaithersburg, Maryland
My son, Steven,
has been using Mr. Lewis's system for an average of two evenings
a month - for about an hour each time - for nearly two years
now. When Steven started, we were very concerned with his low
achievement in both reading and math. Diagnostic tests showed
that he had not come close to mastering the arithmetic skills
traditionally learned in the first grade - even though Steven
was in a fourth grade class in supposedly one of the best schools
in Montgomery County, Maryland (a county that - erroneously -
boasts of its superior public schooling). Another test showed
that Steven had zero knowledge of phonics.
I have noticed
that Steven's curriculum has glossed over (or even skipped over)
topics early in the math and reading sequences (like basic operations,
reading numbers, and phonics fundamentals) and thrown students
into far more advanced-seeming subjects, without giving them
the background to either understand what they're doing or work
anything but the most trivial problems.
Math Sockcamp
and Superphonics go all the way back to the points in each of
the two academic disciplines where Steven already understood,
and built him up from there with basics in strict order. Mr.
Lewis's books made this process extremely easy for me to grasp,
so that I could assist Steven, and also greatly helped Steven
develop (for the first time) a feel for the material he'd supposedly
been working with all these years.
The results have been gratifying. We saw nearly immediate results
in the classroom. This was because Steven now knew the basics -
now had some idea what he was doing.
The summer after Steven's first year in Mr. Lewis's system, he
attended an enrichment program in math at his school and won an
award! Ever since that time, Steven has consistently been rated
at or above grade level in math. This year has just begun, and
Steven's 6th grade class was just given a test in computation.
Steven achieved a perfect score - the only one in his class to
do so. This was no great surprise to Steven, who now usually does
some of his class's best work (and his math section is now the
most advanced among the school's 6th grade groups).
A student who
used to lag behind his classmates is now a star.
Dwayne
Silver Spring, Maryland
In one of my
college math classes, the college required a textbook that cost
$160. Quite frankly the book was a waste of paper. It didn't
explain anything, routinely skipped steps when showing how to
do a problem, then gave such simplistic assignments that it was
worthless to me.
My professor
for the course realized how bad the book was and began teaching
using the books Math Bootcamp and Math Deployment. The difference
was like night and day. I went from being so confused, and not
understanding hardly any of it, to getting it so well, that I
aced the course. These two textbooks seem to be written with
the student in mind, so that the material is understandable and
logically easy to follow.
Shawn
Pickens, SC
I highly recommend
Charles Lewis's Sockcamp/Bootcamp/Deployment math program. I've
been homeschooling for ten years, and I've never seen my daughters
so excited about math. They've raised their grade levels several
years since beginning Mr. Lewis's program.
We consider
ourselves fortunate to have found this sequence. The girls both
look forward to each succeeding lesson.
Gina
Travelers Rest, SC
