NOTE ON PICTURES: This shouldn't be necessary but I have, sadly, noticed growing cases. Please DO NOT link directly to pictures on this website - it steals my bandwidth and is BAD! I CAN trace you if you do and I will take action.
Friday, February 05, 2010
Boastful mummy moment!
Woohoo! Rosie did her first end of topic test on Conquer maths and passed with 100%!!!
Since the 19th January she's been studying: expanded notation using 10,100 etc, expanded notation using Powers, expanded notation as a numeral, order of operations (levels 1 and 2) and number of properties. Some of these topics we've only very briefly scraped the surface of in the past so for her to pass with 100% is just AMAZING! I'm so proud of her!
Not all that long ago, Rosie was struggling with even the basic concept of carrying/borrowing and place value to the 100's - now she's tackling sums like these with NO problem whatsoever:
I'm fairly convinced that the reason she got over her "problems" with maths and retained more was because we gave up on the workbooks and did everything "hands on" - a combination of Montessori and more regular maths stuff like Unifix cubes, Cuisenaire rods, fractions circles etc. I really believe now that kids need a concrete way of learning maths before going on to more abstract work.
The Conquer Maths she's doing now works in a similar way - albeit on the computer! The lessons use lots of pictures, diagrams, charts and step by step instructions and examples before moving on to any sums.
By the way, I'm not getting paid to say nice things about this company - I just think it's terrific and want to pass that on to people!
[ Previous post | Home | Archive index | Next post ]