Question for homeschoolers and teachers.....

[pyrxtc]

My DS is 5 and in Kindergarden for half day. He is obsessed wiht math. He will come home and ask math questions forever. We went to see my DS's7 2nd grade teacher to get his report card and she had a math page they did that day on the table. DS5 asked if he could have it. Of course she said yes, he went home and finished it all. 2nd grade math paper which I believe was a quiz they had.

I had some math pages in our coloring desk from my older kids when they were little and he did all of those. I found a 1st grade subtraction workbook and DS5 is currently working on it. He gets mad when he has to do something else. Everything is about numbers and adding them together or putting them side by side to make new numbers. Every car ride is spent answering his addition problems he can think up from the back seat.

Question is: What can I do to help him ??

I read the instructions and he does the work mostly using his fingers to count but gets it right. All of it is right ! He can do addition and subtraction of all basics numbers. He has not learned how to carry over and such yet. I don't want to teach him the wrong way to do it. Is there somplace I can learn how to teach him the way he will learn in school?

I already plan on asking his teacher for some work at home, maybe from 1st grade for him to do at home. is there someplace I can get more for him to foster his love of numbers?

He just turned 5 the end of September and never went to school before this half day Kinder this year. He is learning wonderful skills in the class but not a lot of math in his class outside the basic 1+1=2

Thanks !!

 

[daisyduck123]

Hi!

I'm a 1st grade teacher. I would suggest getting him the "24 Game". He will enjoy that. He even can even play it by himself...practicing in the car. We used to bring it to restaurants with us & play it while we waited for our food to arrive.

 

[mjkacmom]

My kindergarteners have been able to do 1 digit addition and subtraction for a while, and really enjoyed "shut the box" game they got last year for Christmas. No help here with the curriculum - lazy me just waits until they move up grades, because having older children, I've learned they do things differently than when I was in school!

 

[pyrxtc]

I want to find something that will keep him going on this track. I am really excited that he finds math so exciting. He loves doing worksheets and things like that. Is there somewhere I can find some online I can print out to keep him going?

 

[Sorsha]

I want to find something that will keep him going on this track. I am really excited that he finds math so exciting. He loves doing worksheets and things like that. Is there somewhere I can find some online I can print out to keep him going?

Sent you a PM with lots of links! Enjoy!

 

[tethermagee]

There is a fun book for kids about calculus, and another called Sacred Geometry. We liked these a lot. They were challenging and the geometry book had great pictures for nature that showed the priciples.

 

[Cadiewampus]

If you have one near you try The School Box stores for lots of different school supplies

 

[pyrxtc]

Thank you all !

 

[gillenkl]

I'm a homeschooling mom -

www.mathslice.com
www.mathplayground.com
www.kidzone.com

The site I use daily is www.bigmathtime.com but it's a paid site. The others I listed are free.

 

[koolaidmoms]

I have a DS (kindergarten) just like yours. Last night he was at child watch at school when I was at a meeting. The first grade teacher who was watching the children came over to me at the end and said - "Did you know he is very good at math?"
I said, "I know. Thank you."
She said "No, he reads the questions and he just knew the answers."
"Yes."
"He can do it all in his head!"
"Yes."

I left her standing there unable to figure him out. He was finishing the workbook that her class is about 1/3 through.

I gave him a clock I got from Target for about $4.99 and we have been working on time. We roll money and count change. We cook and double and halve recipes. We do some workbook stuff but that is mostly sent home by his kindergarten teacher. I did finally ask her not to send home the how many monkeys in the tree worksheets and to please send home more challenging homework. She agreed and he is working on 2nd grade math now even though he stays in the kindergarten class.

Have fun with him! My son eats it all up and I love encouraging him.

Good luck!

 

[koolaidmoms]

PS. Here's a list of some math websites. Some we have not been on in awhile.

http://www.starfall.com

http://www.mathplayground.com/

http://www.aaaknow.com/

www.aplusmath.com

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_1.html

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

www.studyzone.org/testprep/

www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/

www.rainforestmaths.com

 

[bookwormde]

Kindergarten is easy; just wait till he is doing advance algebra and calculus in 4th grade.

bookwormde

 

[tmarquez]

DD is in K too and also loves math. Unfortunately her K teacher told me (and her) that they don't do math in K.

I use http://www.freemathtest.com/ and it's a great time saver. DD can print out math sheets with just about any type of problem (addition, subtraction, odd/even, money, place values, etc.) and even select the difficulty of the problems.

As far as how to teach them to do harder math in a way that the school will accept later...well I sort of gave up on that. DD has a 3rd grade friend and I've looked in her math book to try to figure out how it is taught and it didn't really help me.

So now if she asks how to do something I just show her the way I was taught and the school can deal with that when they get there. It's not like they are being helpful to us.

I'm NOT good at math so I don't know where she got this weird math thing. She does math problems out loud when she's trying to go to sleep...that would give me nightmares as a kid!

 

[KibbyCat]

Don't know where you're located, but in my area there are Kumon centers that specialize in math and reading. Unlike Sylvan, which caters mostly to tutoring below-average students, Kumon has programs for the gifted, and they include math clubs. I knew a first-grader who was in one. You should check it out : www.kumon.com

 

[Schmeck]

Softschools has a great website too, as you can increase the difficulty of the problems on the worksheets.

My older DD was doing multiplication in her head when she was 5 - she's a total math geek, got an 800 on her math SAT, and wants to go to MIT. Waiting on a money tree to grow in the back yard for that... It all started with the same energy and drive the OP's son seems to have, so I'd advise to start saving for the big college now!

 

[bumbershoot]

www.kidzone.com

Is that one correct? I can't get it to go anywhere.

...she's a total math geek, got an 800 on her math SAT, and wants to go to MIT. Waiting on a money tree to grow in the back yard for that...

A female wanting to go to MIT hasn't had scholarships thrown at her?????

 

[gillenkl]

should have been:
http://www.kidzone.ws/

 

[jcc0621]

DD is in K too and also loves math. Unfortunately her K teacher told me (and her) that they don't do math in K.

This would annoy me. DS is in K this year and they do math. IT's not calculus or geometry, sure. He gets a homework sheets every night and at least 3 nights a week they are math sheets. Some could just be counting the objects and writing the number in the box or it could be a picture of 2 things and which is more or less. I would be concerned if a K class wasn't having any kind of basic math. JMO.

 

[MNdisneymom]

Quote:
Originally Posted by tmarquez
DD is in K too and also loves math. Unfortunately her K teacher told me (and her) that they don't do math in K.

Same thing here, I was just floored at my DS's teacher conference...they do Saxon math. They have learned what all of the digits look like and how to write them, and they do a lot of work with sequencing (AB patterns, etc.); when I asked about "real" math (addition and subtraction type stuff) the response was, "Not until first grade." My DS is already doing that on his own--guess I'll have to supplement his math work from now on!

 

[shelly3girls]

We chose not to teach our DDs more advanced computation than they were doing in school. One of them uses Everyday Math so we didn't want to confuse her. Instead we focused on logic problems, brain teasers, advanced word problems, passage of time, money, etc. We used different workbooks for ideas (I would need to pull them out to find what we used at that age). Computation is great but a truly advanced math minded person will thrive on the challenges of higher level thinking problems. My DDs love it and have so much fun with it. This also avoids total boredom when they are learning new skills in class. It is bad enough they learn it on day 1 when most kids take several days/weeks, I don't want to teach them everything in advance. I would rather advance their knowledge of what they are learning and take it to a higher level of thinking.