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Posted: May 27 2008 at 1:28pm | IP Logged Quote hereinantwerp
yes, definately!

when I was homeschooling my 7 year old in math last Fall we dropped our formal curriculum b/c of so much resistance from him. And then he started learning!! My favorite resource I used was "Games for Math" by Peggy Kaye. We learned so much from games!! REAL understanding! I also bought Yahtzee, a money game, a few others---these are just great. We would occassionally did a page or 2 from a Spectrum Workbook I picked up at the office supply store for practice. I let him pick the page he wanted to do. Or sometimes I just hand-wrote 6 or 7 problems.

Another thing we did which was related to the "Waldorf" ideas was oral/active math. We passed a hacky sack or stuffed animal (or whatever) back and forth, or hopped from one foot to another and did "count bys"--counting by 3s or 4s or 5s or 2s or 10s, or I would ask a problem and he had to answer it before he threw the thing back. This was great for him, his attention was totally engaged. I would ask him spontaneously to count backwards from 20. As we drove or whatever sometimes I would make up a story problem. I think actually he is a "natural" with math, he just can hardly stand to sit through a worksheet!! All of this did not take much time or fuss, OR a formal "hands on" curriculum, to do!

I enrolled him in school in January (hope to bring him back soon), and he was well ahead of his classmates in math. The math "thinking" comes naturally to him. Actually I think it is great for kids to learn to do math not using paper!! His big challenge has been learning to set up his problems in the way our state tests require, so that is how the teachers must teach it--showing every step instead of just writing the answer. I hate that, and it should not be the burden of a 2nd grader, but that's school for you .

My oldest child, however, loved workbooks---so if you have one of those, just make sure the workbook stretches their thinking skills, or address that in another way

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Posted: May 29 2008 at 9:01pm | IP Logged Quote Katie
I used Rightstart for my last 6 yo, and Miquon for the one before that, and each one was a great fit for the particular child. For my current 6yo I ditched the curriculum and we do maths like I remember from the UK. We have an exercise book (large squares) and I sort of decide what I want to cover and we goo from there using lots of pink and hearts and glittery stickers. When one book is filled in we get another. We use manipulatives and play games too. Right now we're reviewing counting by 10s and 5s so that we can segue into money again.

If you google "First Grade Scope and Sequence" you would get a good idea of some of the things you could cover over the course of the year and mentally or literally check the boxes as you go.

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