SMALL CHANGE IN MATH FOR MY DAUGHTER WITH LIFE OF FRED AND DOLCIANI

The plan now, which I can change at any moment, is for her to do Chalkdust prealgebra. Most of it will be review after Life of Fred Fractions and Decimals. But as a 6th grader next year, I don’t think she’s ready for algebra. And even if she were, I want to make sure she’s ready. But every now and then, I see that she doesn’t really understand something minor, or she forgets. This tells me she doesn’t really care because she’s not asking herself the question, does this make sense.

For instance, she got an answer right in Fred and assumed it was wrong for 15 minutes. She didn’t ask herself does this make sense. She just assumed. She does stuff like this a lot in math, but not in reading. So I know it’s a maturity issue.

She’s doing the video prealgebra so I can spend more one on one time with my 5 and 3 year olds next year. My son will stick with Sinapore 4B and 5A next year. After that, he’ll be going into Fred. Unless he prefers Singapore and wants to continue it through 6B. That’d be fine with me too.