Postby ontheprairie » Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:46 pm
Hi we just started homeschooling for the first time last Wednesday. We have a Kindergarten, Gr4, and Gr5 student.
I am finding that my the oldest two are finding math very difficult and confusing right now. I love the way A Beka teaches math - by memorizing the tables by repition. But, that is not the way our kids learned to do math in public school so they are adjusting - big time.
I am hoping to re-open this discussion and get some opinions.
I don't want our kids to continue to be confused and frustrated. I am thinking about putting the math lessons on hold for a few weeks to teach our the kids about addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction (they learned to add, times, take away, etc) and to teach the tables so that they instead of using fingers and circles on a paper as they have been taught.
Any thoughts?