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Do you have the HIG (home instructor's guide)? There are mental math problems in the back that are scheduled. My dd does these orally. What books are you using?

 

I'm ordering those HIG's. I bought the Textbooks and workbooks today at the Homeschool store, along with the IP's. I also have the CWP's coming in the mail. I just know my dc, and they need a lot of fact practice. Maybe MUS worksheet generator? I'd just like to pull out a book, tear out a sheet, and give it to the kids. I'm looking for simplicity!

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Goodness - you have it all covered. Singapore approaches it all conceptually and with the IP and CWP, they will spend a lot of time thinking math. If you do the mental math practice too, you shouldn't feel that it is lacking. I'd give that all a try before adding anything else in.

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I use flash cards, especially the triangular one, and lots of math "go fish". I use a deck that goes up to 12 without face cards and we pick what we want to be "it"...thirteen, fifteen, seven, etc, and then just play. You can add, subtract and may need three or 4 cards to get there.

 

I also play math fact lotto. I have boards with nine squares like 4+4 or 9-5 or 3x4, and then we take turns pulling up cards that have 9 or 7 on them and you cover your board like bingo. Kiddo loves it and asks for it. We can play cards or this lotto for 90 minutes in a sitting. It has worked better than flash cards because he will sit still for it for so long. (I let him win a bit).

 

We are going back over the previous Intensive Practice, and he is doing well. It makes both of us feel gratified.

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We use a variety to keep it interesting:

Flashmaster

Math Wrap Ups

deck of cards: play 'war' with each player putting down two cards. You can choose which operation to use and then the player with the largest sum wins the pot

Because Singapore teaches number bonds right away we also mix it up ie _+3=10 vs 7+3=10 this has really helped to cement the relational aspect of numbers on my kiddos.

 

Good luck.

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Flash cards are on my 8 yo boys' daily checklist 4 days/week. They do them on their own 3x/week & with me 1x/week. Takes 5 minutes or less and is very effective when done consistently.

 

My boys aren't too into playing math games to reinforce math facts. They'd rather run through the flashcards and go play with legos.

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I'm ordering those HIG's. I bought the Textbooks and workbooks today at the Homeschool store, along with the IP's. I also have the CWP's coming in the mail. I just know my dc, and they need a lot of fact practice. Maybe MUS worksheet generator? I'd just like to pull out a book, tear out a sheet, and give it to the kids. I'm looking for simplicity!

 

It is a lot of work with the workbook, IP, and CWP. I have mine also doing daily drills from this website:

 

http://www.math-drills.com/

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We've used plain old flashcards and also the Flashmaster. Fact practice happens at the beginning of the math lesson. We also do the mental math (which I am now doing in place of fact practice) every evening before our read aloud.

 

You're right, Singapore math doesn't have integrated fact practice, but it's not a big deal to add it.

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For first and second grade we used the hopscotch rug.

 

Times tables worked great.

We'd work on just one table at a time.

Example:

3xtable

 

Jump on 1.

say 3x1 is 1

 

Jump on 2.

Say 3x2 is 6.

 

Then to vary I'd ask for odd numbers then even numbers or even start with 10 and jump backwards.

 

 

Mini-trampoline.

 

doubles were great for 2 X table

 

double 1 is 2

double 2 is 4

 

 

For my very visual child. Memory pictures from www.memorydynamics were great. We posted them in the bathroom, on the ceiling, and on the doors.

 

Now were following up with quartermile math. It's a good fit when there's more than one child to increase speed with and it goes through fractions, percents, and simple algebra.

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For extra "facts" practice we did flashcards and Calculadders primarily. .

 

This is what we did (though we didn't use Calculadders for long) ~ we mostly used flashcards or I printed math drill sheets off the internet. For awhile we were using both R&S and Singapore so my children knew their math facts quite well!

 

Singapore is a great program.

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My son liked variety. It helped me to have a schedule -- a different method each day or each week, such as flashcards on Mondays, Quarter Mile Math on Tue.... Also scheduling a different operation (+, x etc) on certain days can help just "get it done." Or, you can just focus on one operation until it is mastered, and then move on.

 

I do NOT think there is any math facts mastery in Singapore texts, workbooks, extra practice books, word problem books, CD-ROM games, or HIGs.

 

I tutor many Asian kids and it is generally assumed that parents are teaching math facts in an outside tutoring program or using other at-home methods, and that they are also receiving math concept instruction in school. Math facts are learned until there is total recall of any fact up through the 12's without stopping to think about it. Higher level students also reach total recall of things like percent/decimal conversions at certain major intervals (12.5, 25, etc), so they don't have to think much about that kind of thing, either, and can save their brain space for bigger concepts. I believe this would be the same in the country of Singapore.

 

JMHO!

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