Every day we do math at our house. That’s not new. But this week we are going to be more serious about addressing some gaps. I get to be a one-on-one teacher for my children, which they need. Well, really every kid needs it!
We started working on printing numbers correctly last week. One of my babies has some bad habits and the numbers are backward all. the. time. Last summer we painted a chalkboard wall in the basement and it’s come in very handy many times. It is now part of our makeshift classroom.
My son, who is in grade 2, is working on number lines. He is very good at mental math, but doesn’t have a way to visually represent his thinking. I thought long and hard, but try as I might I can’t remember all the lessons from the Context for Learning units. However, I do know that Antonio is 2 years younger than his sister and there are a lot of interesting math conversations that can come from this. The sister is 10, and Antonio is 8, and Dad is 40 and Mom is 38 and I can’t remember right now how old the grandparents are.
Today we talked about how far apart Antonio and his sister are on a number line. Then we talked about how that would look at different times in their lives. How old was she when he was born? How old was he when she was 6? How old will she be when he is 10?
See the trouble making the jumps on the number line? That’s a handwriting issue, but it’s effecting his math so we’re working on it! Tomorrow we’ll continue working on this before we move onto finding the difference between the children and their parents.
We also did some counting. Spencer needs practice skip counting so I have him counting his cereal and candy. He doesn’t mind. We do it only once per day, not over and over. When we worked on 3s today I modelled it for him first then he repeated what I had done. We’ll see how it goes later.
My grade 3 daughter is ready to practice the 7 times tables. We started by going over everything from 1×1 up. We played Multiplication War last week. This week we are going to do that some more.
Both kids are working on Dreambox for a few minutes every day.
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