ILiveInFlipFlops Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 How do you have your kids do the Practice sections that are in the Singapore textbooks? Do they rewrite each question out and work it on separate paper? I guess that's really the only way, right? I don't understand why they don't just include those sections in the workbook instead of the textbook :confused1: TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessj Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Yeah, I don't know why they do that either. Honestly, we skip them most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranquility7 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I've wondered the same thing! For us, I used to write them out for DS on lined paper. Now he is old enough to write them out himself, so I had him do that for a while. However, I have realized that those sections are often overkill for us these days anyway, so as long as he does fine on the workbook stuff, I just skip the Practices in the textbook altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Aren't those the sections that are usually done as a class? My DC usually do them on a whiteboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I did them orally with my son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenDaisies Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 We do them on the whiteboard - less painful for dd than writing them out on paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILiveInFlipFlops Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 Oh, a whiteboard is a good idea; I think DD will like that. I'm scheduling them into my lesson plans because now that we're getting into upper levels, I'm finding she needs more practice than the workbook alone is giving her, but they're optional lessons. I can easily skip them if we don't need them. Thanks, everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I use them to teach my kids to write problems on separate paper. It was good practice for higher math, where we use a textbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILiveInFlipFlops Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 I use them to teach my kids to write problems on separate paper. It was good practice for higher math, where we use a textbook. Yeah, I was thinking this too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKDmom Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 I do them orally, with the help of a whiteboard, until I'm certain dc can work the problems without my help (we end up skipping most of that practice and moving on to the workbook). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 I do them orally, with the help of a whiteboard, until I'm certain dc can work the problems without my help (we end up skipping most of that practice and moving on to the workbook). We're not talking about the regular textbook lesson problems (we do those orally or at the white board and skip as needed also), but the section labeled "Practice A/B/C" at the end of each section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKDmom Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 We're not talking about the regular textbook lesson problems (we do those orally or at the white board and skip as needed also), but the section labeled "Practice A/B/C" at the end of each section. Obviously I wasn't reading carefully. :blushing: I pretty much skip the practice sections. :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 DS1 is only in Singapore 3A right now, but we skip the Practice A/B/C parts for now; he just doesn't need them (yet, if he will at all). But if we did do them, I'd have him do them on separate paper as practice for later math that doesn't have a workbook format, or we'd use a whiteboard (or more likely, Notability on the iPad). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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