Mathematical Reasoning

Dec 02, 2015 12:57

"Mom, you've done four! And you have.... seven left ( Read more... )

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zathrus December 3 2015, 03:00:51 UTC
The honey cards do work well, and D and T definitely experienced memorizing math facts as punishment. J, of course, is weird by most comparison sets. With R, I'm having to remind myself that she is, in fact, pretty good at math; she's just not mindblowingly amazing at it. She spent a couple months with some sort of mental block around how to enter the number 20 into the microwave; she could recognize it when she saw it, she could write it a good percentage of the time, she could use it when counting, but she could not remember that 20 was a 2 and then a 0 on the microwave buttons. She's got it now, though, and she's off and running again.

I went back and read over some of my old LJ entries recently, and the ones about J and his math progress at this age blew me away. R is progressing through LoF at a rate of about a chapter a week, sometimes more, sometimes less; J was doing two or three chapters per day and pushing for more. But R is clearly making progress, conceptually and in terms of math fact memorization - she's in Butterflies, which is all about things that add to make 9, and has these facts memorized very well - and catching on to base 10 principles and counting by 5s and all those other things that are incidentally covered in Butterflies as well, so I have to remember to switch comparison groups if I want any sort of a realistic picture of how she's doing.

Newt

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beth_leonard December 3 2015, 05:39:36 UTC
Ah those vending machines, 4 on one side of the hall and 5 on the other. There's something comforting about them.

--Beth

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