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if you were pretty certain you were sending kids to ps next year, would you ask the public school for their curriculum? i'm thinking especially math for my 4th grader. we're using singapore math and he's doing ok...but he struggles with figuring out problems according to the rules. he likes to do everything in his head, and almost always gets them right but if he'll be attending public school for 5th grade, i know they'll want him to understand the processes.

 

my oldest son (now 20) was like this at that age too, and did eventually go to ps his freshman year in h.s. (then homeschooled again the last 3 years). he didn't have any problems, but by that time he had already done algebra and was halfway through geometry, and learned himself that he needed to know the how behind the problems, not just the answer.

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I would take a look at the standards for the grade your child is completing. If your state is going to Common Core, they may be adopting new textbooks for next year. (Georgia is, but most other states are waiting.) I would probably get him used to explaining where the answers come from. I don't doubt he is doing it all in his head, but I bet with some help, he could explain his reasoning in words.

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I would ask, not because the topics aren't likely covered in Primary Mathematics, but because each math program seems to have its own peculiarities of style. It can be good to be acclimated to those style differences in advance, but I would not give up PM in the process if at all possible.

 

Bill

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