Unlock your child’s potential with the Math with Confidence curriculum, offering a fun and effective approach to mastering math concepts and building confidence.

Math with Confidence is a newer math curriculum that has come out in recent years. However; the creator, Kate Snow, has been a part of the math community for quite awhile. She has other series like Math Facts that Stick and Preschool Math at Home.
Our Journey with Math with Confidence Curriculum
I had contemplated using Kindergarten Math with Confidence for my younger son’s kindergarten year, but we decided to go with something else. We had jumped between several math curricula for my oldest and eventually settled on BJU math. That is what I decided to try for first grade for my younger son. He ended up flying through the workbook, but couldn’t ever really explain the concepts or what he had learned. I decided then, it was as good a time as any to give Math with Confidence a try.
What is Math with Confidence Curriculum?
The Math with Confidence curriculum is designed to teach kids to be confident and capable in math. It aims to give a deep, conceptual understanding of math concepts, proficiency and fluency with fundamental skills, and a positive attitude toward math.
Why We Love Math with Confidence Curriculum:
Hands-On
If you’ve been around on my blog or Youtube channel for awhile, you know we love all things hands-on and visual learning. This is how both of my older boys learn best. Math, especially in the first few years of education, should be sensory based, in my humble opinion. The issue with my son’s other curriculum was while it provided visuals, he wasn’t seeing and touching the manipulatives. By using a hands-on curriculum, he was able to better understand and grasp the concepts, as well as be able to explain them to me. Something he couldn’t do before.
Affordable
The Math with Confidence curriculum is super affordable compared to most math curricula out there, especially those that are hands on. You have a teacher’s guide, student workbook, and you create your own manipulative kit. You can also purchase a premade one. The thing I like about the manipulatives they use, is they’re very open-ended. Even if we use it for Kindergarten math, we can also use it for other math levels or even other subjects.
You also have the option of purchasing the PDF version of the workbook pages and teacher’s guide. Some prefer to have a teacher’s guide on their tablet. I prefer to print the PDF workbook pages and have a physical copy of the teacher’s guide. I can print it for the rest of my children in subsequent years, saving me a ton of money in the long run!
Easy for Parents
I love that the Math with Confidence curriculum is scripted. This not only gives parents the confidence to teach their children, but makes it easier when you have other children you’re teaching as well. There’s no guess work, there’s just the lesson. Some math curricula I have used will have a generic script, but doesn’t thoroughly explain the concept to the student. It also explains concepts to the parent.
Incorporates Games
I don’t know many young students who don’t love games. My son would sometimes even ask to do some of the games when we weren’t doing math. The games in this program are super easy to implement. I won’t say he loved all of them, but he certainly enjoyed being able to do games for school.
Mix of Spiral and Mastery
Mastery based means that it goes deep into a concept. Spiral means it goes surface level into several topics and comes back and goes a bit deeper.
I’d definitely say that the Math with Confidence curriculum is a nice mix of spiral and mastery. A curricula like Math U See is mastery, where The Good and the Beautiful math was so spiral it had my head spinning. Math with Confidence goes deep into a concept but provides lots of review and you’re not spending an entire school year on one or two topics. This is perfect for my children.
4 Day Schedule
I absolutely love that Math with Confidence curriculum is a four day a week schedule. We school 4 days a week and that makes it easy to go with our schedule. If we had a five day a week math, I think it would always feel like we were “behind”. There is an optional fifth day, as an enrichment day. This can be for review or fun books and projects with the concept you learned.
Gentle, Yet Thorough
This is a challenging math curriculum. Compared to some, it may seem easy at first. As you progress, you see your child understanding math in a way you never have. Honestly, there were many times I learned new things or why we do certain math concepts a certain way. It’s gentle in it’s execution, but it certainly is thorough. I have no concerns that my son wasn’t on track at any point.
Checkpoints
As a first generation homeschooler, I do still struggle with confidence in that I am doing okay, especially in important subjects like math. There have certainly been times where I pushed my boys when they probably needed some more review. That’s why I love that the Math with Confidence curriculum has checkpoints at the end of the chapters. This helps you to know if your child is truly ready to move on to the next concept or if they need some more work.

Some Cons of the Math with Confidence Curriculum
I won’t say that we love every single thing about the Math with Confidence curriculum because that wouldn’t be true. There is no perfect curriculum out there even if we love it.
Time Consuming & Parent Intensive
While I love how helpful it is for parents, it can sometimes be time consuming, especially if you have other children. We would need a solid 15-20 minutes to go over the lesson, 5-10 for the game, and then he would usually spend 10 minutes or so completing the worksheet independently. Not completely over the top, but for first grade, it took quite a while.
For this reason, that is why we chose to go back to BJU math for the current school year for my third grader. I am currently pregnant with our fifth child. He also didn’t love how long the lessons took. Overall though, I think they were very beneficial, especially in those early primary years where your main focus is usually just math and reading.
Only Available in a Few Levels
By the time I am writing this post, their fifth and sixth grade levels will be out soon. However; when we first started this series, it only had a few grade levels. I would have loved to used this for my oldest. He would have benefited greatly from this curriculum, had it been available. It also is only going to go up to sixth grade. Then, your child will need to transition to something else.
Final Thoughts
As you can see, we certainly love the Math with Confidence curriculum and have more pros than cons. I look forward to using it with my younger children. As I said, this is a curriculum I think would have been especially great for my ADHD learner.