Integrating CWP

[Matryoshka]

I've been using Singapore for years, but didn't get CWP till last year when I found this board and everyone was raving about how great they were.

 

But just adding them in "as needed" did not work out - my older two got some of the beginning of the book done, but we never finished it. My younger dd barely touched hers.

 

My older two are now done with Primary Math, but my younger will be in 5a/b this year. I think I need to find a more systematic way to go through the book - do you do an exercise a day, have a CWP day every few days or once a week and have them do X number of problems? How many is reasonable to get through at once?

 

Does it make any sense, if we're short on time, to just have her do the Challenging Problems? Or some (not all) of the Practice and then the Challenging ones? She's my strongest math student, I think it would be good to challenge her. But she's also stubborn as all heck and loves to get out of work... If I present this in any way as optional, it will never get done...

[nmoira]

For most topics, DD the Elder does only the Challenging Problems. When she was using Singapore, I'd have her work a topic or two behind, one or two problems a day, every day, with breaks only to keep CWP staggered relative to the text. Now that she's not using Singapore, I give her one Challenging Problem a day (three or four days a week for a five-day week), as part of her warm-up pack. Her choice is one page of regular problems or one Challenging Problem, and she usually picks the Challenging Problem. All Challenging Problems must be done before moving on to the next topic.

[Narrow Gate Academy]

We do CWP daily doing either 2 of the regular problems or 1 of the challenging ones. It's worked for us so far. HTH

[Sunshine State Sue]

We did math 3x per week back when we used CWP. I generally gave ds 3 per day - 2 regular and 1 challenging.

 

Ds called CWP "evil". :gnorsi:

[nmoira]

 

Ds called CWP "evil". :gnorsi:

:D

[Ali in OR]

We do the CWP section when we finish a chapter in the text and workbook. So if we just finished addition with decimals then we go on to the word problems for addition with decimals. We often do them together. Dd can do the easier ones on her own but usually needs help on the more challenging ones.

[Matryoshka]

Thanks so much everyone - that's very helpful.

 

We do the CWP section when we finish a chapter in the text and workbook. So if we just finished addition with decimals then we go on to the word problems for addition with decimals. We often do them together. Dd can do the easier ones on her own but usually needs help on the more challenging ones.

 

I think this may be the closest to how I'd like to implement it. How many problems do you do a day? The others are doing 1-2 problems along with their regular math exercises - if Ido this after we finish a section (so it'll be the only math we'd do that day), I'll need to do more at once - how many (of each kind) is reasonable without causing tears?

[Ali in OR]

We'll take several days, maybe even a week, to do the CWP problems that correspond to the section we just finished. For fourth grade, it seems that I most often assigned a 2-page spread each day which would typically be about 6 problems. She might do the first day or two on her own (the easier problems) but we probably always talked through the challenging ones together. We talked about the steps needed or draw the bar diagram or whatever would be helpful to figure out the strategy, then dd would finish up the math on her own.