Ah the joys of teaching math to smart children. They're totally ready for the abstract concepts, but most math is taught in concrete ways where it's important to have done the boring work of memorizing all your math facts, which is an entirely different skill set that is like punishment to them. I like Fred's honey cards.
The honey cards do work well, and D and T definitely experienced memorizing math facts as punishment. J, of course, is weird by most comparison sets. With R, I'm having to remind myself that she is, in fact, pretty good at math; she's just not mindblowingly amazing at it. She spent a couple months with some sort of mental block around how to enter the number 20 into the microwave; she could recognize it when she saw it, she could write it a good percentage of the time, she could use it when counting, but she could not remember that 20 was a 2 and then a 0 on the microwave buttons. She's got it now, though, and she's off and running again.
I went back and read over some of my old LJ entries recently, and the ones about J and his math progress at this age blew me away. R is progressing through LoF at a rate of about a chapter a week, sometimes more, sometimes less; J was doing two or three chapters per day and pushing for more. But R is clearly making progress, conceptually and in terms of math fact memorization - she's in
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I went back and read over some of my old LJ entries recently, and the ones about J and his math progress at this age blew me away. R is progressing through LoF at a rate of about a chapter a week, sometimes more, sometimes less; J was doing two or three chapters per day and pushing for more. But R is clearly making progress, conceptually and in terms of math fact memorization - she's in ( ... )
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