Megan is now starting to add with carrying. This is not knew as she is doing it in life of Fred. This program does it in a neat manner. Here's a set of the problems: 3 + 7, 43 + 7, 243 + 7 , that is, it shows the steps in program. One thing I like with this program is that they have a fun activity. On page 41, she answered problems in a hat that has a letter on it. Then, below, she finds the corresponding answer and above that in a space she puts the letter. Today , it spelled out "Happy Birthday".
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Megan, has part of her daily morning routine, is adding "Build a Problem flip book" on Time. Its a book with lots of top, middle and bottom flaps and you pick a scene in which you work out the elapsed time for. Megan draws the three to four clocks necessary and the time at each one to come at the final time. This is in her daily writing composition book.
Megan did page 94. She has done all the pages leading up to this and I will try to write them all up. On this page, she had to find out how many total babies a meerkat would have if they have 5 babies each year for seven years. She put 60 at first and then I helped her. I worked with her to realize that this was 7X5 or 5X7. Then, I wrote out seven 5's and had her skip count her way through this problem. When we were done, we skip counted by 7's.
The second problem was to determine a meerkat's total number of toes if he/she has four toes on each foot.
Megan reduce this to 8 times 2 . I told her this is the same as 8 + 8. She soon got the right answer.
Megan is doing a combination of many math curriculums, Miquon, Math-u-see and now Singapore. I am trying to figure out the best fit for my daughter. I thought the second book of Math-u-see was getting too easy, but I realize that leaving it behind is a mistake as it reinforces through repetition, which is something Megan seems to need. Anyway, on this page of Singapore, Megan is learning to add double digit numbers without any carrying or borrowing. Problems like 34 +3, 45-23, etc.
Megan is learning from Math-u-see that owe, means you are subtracting a given amount and is colored grey and "have" (in white) means this is how many you start with . It's a color system they use so that later the kids can understand the problem. She did some problems like this , just counting how many grey and how many white boxes there were. Then, She did some adding and some subtracting problems. Since there were not many subtraction problems, I added a row upon her request. then, she did the problems they had. On page 252, She did more adding problems. Weird. There should be more subtraction. I am not a big fan of this book, but she does it periodically.
Megan worked on Kahn Academy. She did some problems on Perimeter, She added with carrying numbers in the hundreds place, and she did some fraction work.
Megan had to pick out the shapes in the row that matched the shape name. The two trickier ones were parallelogram and trapezoid. This are discussed in life of Fred. Then, she had to read the sentence, find the misspelled word and write the correct spelling down on the line.
Megan did a row of adding single digits and subtracting numbers, like 12-8 and 11-7. Megan was then given clues and had to fill in the missing word, like It begins like rip and rhymes with cake, in other words, rake.
Megan is learning the basics of multiplication. She is given problems like 2 * 6 . I explained that this means 2 six times or six two times. Then after this, they give her 6 + 6 to show her a relationship the multiplication shows. This is the same with the others, for example
4 times 4 or 4+4+4+4
3 times 3 or 3+3+3
3 times 5 or 5 + 5 + 5
On this page, Megan just answers addition and subtraction problems. Some of them are adding three numbers together whereas some are just adding or subtracting two numbers from one another.
