RainbowSprinkles Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 If you schedule for this, how many minutes per day does your 4th grader work on Math? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 We do a lesson a day plus a calculadder and sometimes an extra practice worksheet. Math is anywhere from 30 mins to an hour. That being said- she is working on learning long division. An hour was up 20 minutes ago <sigh> after she gets it then I am half way done teaching long division :hurray: (2 more to go- but it will be a while :001_huh:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 We do 45 minutes to an hour. If the expected work isnt complete, he does it as homework. Homework, when he has it, last about 15-20 minutes (probably only once a week). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I schedule anywhere from 30-45 minutes. I would say 15 minutes is me teaching directly with them (reviewing, speed drill, new concepts). Then, they work on the lesson. If they are working hard, once the time is up, they are done & we just pick up where they left off the day before. If they goof around, the rest is homework. (If I'm not teaching something new or working with them directly, math is scheduled for 30 minutes.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwjx2khsmj Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 He usually works for 30 to 45 minutes. He's doing LoF Fractions right now so sometimes he does more than one chapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2squared Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 30ish minutes of RS D + 15ish min of Singapore CWP = 45 minutes total Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momling Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 About an hour... 20 minutes of teaching, 20 minutes independent work, 20 minutes of my daughter gazing at the ceiling, petting the cat, drawing pictures in the margins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Goodness, ours is probably closer to 1.5 to 2 hrs counting homework time. We work for a half hour together on review, checking the day before's work, doing corrections, and looking at the new lesson. Then she gets half an hour to work on the day's lesson on her own. She never finishes in the half hour. Then she spends a half hour to an hour in the evenings. I do think she is a dawdler though, and could go faster (as she often does when she needs to whip out the homework so that she can go do something fun) and she is doing grade 5 math. The longest thing for her was the chapter on long mutiplication. Long division hasn't been tough, but doing 325x 325 is for her. I guess there are too many places to make a small mistake, and she took hours on each assignment of those problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I schedule 1 hour of math and logic time per day. Most days are 60 minutes for math, but logic may take 15-30 minutes a couple times a week. My ds mostly does math independently with me explaining any difficulties or answering questions as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pen Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 1 hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 About an hour... 20 minutes of teaching, 20 minutes independent work, 20 minutes of my daughter gazing at the ceiling, petting the cat, drawing pictures in the margins. This! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 About an hour... 20 minutes of teaching, 20 minutes independent work, 20 minutes of my daughter gazing at the ceiling, petting the cat, drawing pictures in the margins. :lol::lol::lol: Sounds just like my house!!! We usually do about 45 minutes, which includes the obligatory daily lecture(s) about settling down, focusing, don't draw pictures, etc. . . We cover about 2 pp worth of MM worktext pages. Meaning, if it's an easy topic, and we only do half the problems, or half the page is explanation, we do 3 or 4 pages, but it's really only 2 pages of problems . . . if I try and do more I'm always sorry. If she does well w/ the 45 min. of work, and gets through at least 2 pp, then we'll do a few LOF chapters. I love math bribery that involves . . . doing more math! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 We spend about 45 minutes to an hour on 4th grade level math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 For elementary, I always scheduled three different twenty minute sessions (4 days per week). One session would be the primary lesson for the day; one would be for drill work; and one would be for working on other things, whether mathy games, geometry stuff, things like time and money for the early years, etc. Most of the time, the work scheduled would be finished before the twenty minute session was over, so I'd guess we did about 45 minutes of total math a day most days - just not all at the same time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainbowSprinkles Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Thanks! It sounds like we're doing good then! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Last year I assigned a particular # of pages per day to be done in less then an hour. If not finished then they went to the next day. Any more then an hour and the real whining would start. I also should say that I sat with him the entire time to help and also to deter dawdling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 About an hour most days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miracleone Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 For us, it's about 45 minutes but mostly about an hour. If we add flashcard and Math drills, it will take an additional half hour more. We usually do the flash card and drills every other day or twice a week only. I correct Math and we review mistakes the next day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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