jengjohnson Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Inquiring minds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 60-90 minutes, for my motivated DD who prefers self-teaching this subject. I ask her to work in her text for a solid hour, but she tends to get wrapped up and doesn't like leaving a lesson nearly done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yvonne Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 My 7th graders work on math for 1 hour/ day, five days/week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 The average is probably 75 minutes or so. Some days she'll spend 45 minutes; other days she'll spend 150 minutes. We like a lot of discussion :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 My deal is one lesson or one hour (if he thinks it's overwelming). However, because he can earn a square for careful, neat-ish work and he only gets the square per lesson (not work session), he usually finishes a lesson a day. (The squares earn "screentime" something that is VERY limited in our home.) Some days take him over an hour, some under. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyMama Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 We were spending around 2 hours+ including discussion, correction and tears on Saxon 8/7! Awful!! :( So we switched math curriculum to CLE. :) Right now we're working through the early books (which are mostly revision for her) so it varies greatly depending on if we have to stop to relearn a concept or just complete a couple of the review tests. We average around 45 m - 60 m per day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 1-2 hours depending on how much he does. He enjoys math and like spending the time on it. We use Life of Fred, AoPS, and AoPS Alcumus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheApprentice Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 It takes him about an hour per lesson. He's using CLE 700. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HecticMama Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 DD is working through Alg 1/2. If I sit and monitor her, it takes about an hour with discussion of the lesson. If I let her dawdle, it could take 2. I've been monitoring her lately, to show her that she has free time in the afternoon if she gets it done. I'm hoping this will work to get her to do it on her own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddle Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 My dd hates math and in public school was in tears much of the time. We switched to Teaching Textbooks last year and no more tears. She is in Prealgebra and spends betwen 45 to an hour on each lesson (she does one lesson per day). Good thread to see what others are doing. Paula Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 We spend about 45 minutes together on the sofa reviewing her homework and then me teaching and doing examples of new material. Dd then does homework on her own at night and usually spends about an hour (dh and I are convinced it would go a lot faster if she would just stay focused! Stop playing with the cat!). So I would say on average anywhere from 1.5-2 hrs per day, 5 days a week. We are using Singapore's Discovering Math--great problems. I would not expect her to be able to do it on her own. I would say our model is pretty close to what happens in a public school math class (I'm comparing to the high school classes I taught--not sure about middle school): 45 min of instruction in school and an hour of homework on average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishMum Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 1 hour on AOPS preAlgebra 5 days a week, and 1/2 hour on Khan Academy 3 days a week. He works totally alone, and is a self motivator. I think I will have to reduce the time to 45 mins when my younger boys are grade 7, as they are not as motivated, and find math more difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffybunny Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I hour 5 days per week on MUS, plus about 1/2hr 4 x week with Mathsonline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 You don't want to know! He is only allowed to focus on math for four months (until the big exam), and then he will be back on a balanced schedule. Ruth in NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 About 6 hours a week. Maybe a little bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 2 hours. Sometimes a bit more. We're doing Saxon 8/7. We do the speed drill plus the mental math and almost all the problems. We do the entire thing together every day, discussing, explaining, etc. I am fine with it and so is she. We are both remediating and accelerating at the same time (long story), so I expected this. We spend all the time we need to make sure she understands the concept behind what she's doing, and not just doing it by rote. She is on board with this and asking for it, after yrs of CLE. I research around first to figure out how to explain it conceptually, since Saxon isn't great about teaching it that way. She weirdly couldn't and didn't want to understand math conceptually before this yr, and it's like a lightbulb suddenly went on for her and something matured, so we're making hay while the sun shines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Technically 6th but using Saxon Algebra 1/2 - 45 to 60 minutes daily. We use the schedule from MFW which tells you which problems to skip. So far (1/3 through the course) she's got a solid A so the skipping hasn't been a problem. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisardh Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 We use TT and the lesson and the problems take about 30 minutes each. Then we use Math software games like Math Detective or Spider Island for 30 minutes. More than an hour of math would make my dd's brain explode! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisabees Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Usually between an hour and an hour and a half. He is self teaching AoPS, so whenever he feels satisfied or feels too frustrated to continue (these days can be 2 hours long). ;) Fridays are longer math days, as we also do "fun" math. On these days, we may watch Secrets of Mental Math, a TED video, a documentary, play a game, watch ViHart, listen to a podcast, read an article. I've been wanting to see BBC's Story of Maths. Maybe we'll start that today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyinNNV Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 One hour, five days a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thowell Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Around 1 hour a day, self teaching through Lial's Pre-Algebra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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