CLE math question - quizzes and tests

[Heidi]

Do you have your kids do the quizzes and tests or do you skip them?

 

I was skipping them the last couple of weeks, doing CLE 3Xs a week and LoF 2Xs a week.  But I'm thinking of moving to a 4 day week, and I'm not super impressed with LoF.  So I was thinking CLE 4Xs a week with the quizzes and tests and dropping LoF.  OR I could still do CLE 3Xs a week and a few chapters of LoF 1 day a week.

 

Any thoughts?

[mom31257]

I am thinking of adding in LOF one day a week this year. I meant to this past year and didn't get around to it. I will do CLE 4xs a week, but I often cross off review in 2 lessons here or there and only do the new parts and review I think ds needs. He completes all the quizzes. I've occasionally allowed him to skip a test if he did extremely well on the last couple of lessons in the book. I use it as a motivator for him to pay attention to detail. If he misses things, that's usually why. 

 

 

 

 

[sbgrace]

We skipped all the quizzes and tests in the 500 level. If we were doing well on the daily assignments I knew we had mastered the material. I was trying to condense the full 500 year into half a year, and this helped me do that plus some. I haven't seen any retention issues (there is so much built in review). If I was concerned about that, though, I would do the quizzes and tests. I may add them in anyway to slow down our progression.

[Ewe Mama]

We have always done the quizzes and tests. We don't do whatever else is assigned for the lesson on Day 5 or Day 10, so the children have a lighter math day, which they quite enjoy.

 

One caveat is that we school year-round, so we don't have any time constraints for getting each level completed.

[mommy5]

We do them.  It helps me see how much the kids understand with no help from me.

[aaplank]

We've done CLE from 100's - 500's and have never done any tests or quizzes. By grading their daily lessons and having my kids correct all wrong answers, I already know which concepts need further review and which ones I can skip in the "We Remember" sections. The tests and quizzes seem redundant.

[Heidi]

We've done CLE from 100's - 500's and have never done any tests or quizzes. By grading their daily lessons and having my kids correct all wrong answers, I already know which concepts need further review and which ones I can skip in the "We Remember" sections. The tests and quizzes seem redundant.

 

 

Thank you EVERYONE for your input, but especially this.  This helps.  I check their work daily as well and the tests and quizzes seem redundant to me too.  I guess if I didn't check daily I would need the quizzes, or if I felt they needed more practice.

[OneStepAtATime]

I normally skip the quizzes and tests except for a random test or quiz thrown in to check retention or if they ask but sometimes DS especially seems to have mastered things so we may do just new material and a brief review of that new material in a light unit then take the test. If he gets a 90 or higher we just move on to the next light unit.

[mom31257]

Thank you EVERYONE for your input, but especially this.  This helps.  I check their work daily as well and the tests and quizzes seem redundant to me too.  I guess if I didn't check daily I would need the quizzes, or if I felt they needed more practice.

 

While I get the point that the quizzes and tests could be redundant, I like that a quiz is something I can pull out of the book and have ds do without any chance of looking back for help. I am contemplating timing the quizzes this year. I feel that as ds is moving up in middle school and toward high school, I need to help prepare him for a variety of educational settings and have the skills to face them. There will be more chances for outside co-op classes and even dual enrollment classes. Dd took some college classes this year, and had in-class, timed writing assignments, quizzes, and tests. She did fine, but I had always used some quizzes and tests from a variety of sources in our curriculum. She is naturally a fast worker, so the timing thing wasn't a factor, but it could be with ds. 

[KeriJ]

We skip the quizzes, but do the tests.  I don't always get around to grading every lesson, so the tests help us be sure they've got the material down.  Skipping quizzes gives us flexibility in school days per year.

[SnMomof7]

We do them. I don't always get around to checking daily work, quizzes let me know if everything is ok :).

[SnMomof7]

Do you have your kids do the quizzes and tests or do you skip them?

 

I was skipping them the last couple of weeks, doing CLE 3Xs a week and LoF 2Xs a week. But I'm thinking of moving to a 4 day week, and I'm not super impressed with LoF. So I was thinking CLE 4Xs a week with the quizzes and tests and dropping LoF. OR I could still do CLE 3Xs a week and a few chapters of LoF 1 day a week.

 

Any thoughts?

Can you let me know your thoughts on LOF? I was thinking of using it 1x/week with CLE. I don't want to buy it if it isn't worth it :).

[Heidi]

Can you let me know your thoughts on LOF? I was thinking of using it 1x/week with CLE. I don't want to buy it if it isn't worth it :).

I haven't completely formed my opinion on them yet. Some people love them, some don't. I'm leaning towards the latter. They strike me as more silly and light than conceptual. But I don't know. Maybe making math silly and light occasionally is a good thing. My kids seem to enjoy them.

[Heidi]

While I get the point that the quizzes and tests could be redundant, I like that a quiz is something I can pull out of the book and have ds do without any chance of looking back for help. I am contemplating timing the quizzes this year. I feel that as ds is moving up in middle school and toward high school, I need to help prepare him for a variety of educational settings and have the skills to face them. There will be more chances for outside co-op classes and even dual enrollment classes. Dd took some college classes this year, and had in-class, timed writing assignments, quizzes, and tests. She did fine, but I had always used some quizzes and tests from a variety of sources in our curriculum. She is naturally a fast worker, so the timing thing wasn't a factor, but it could be with ds.

This is a good point. I will think more on that. Thank you.

[Sahamamama]

We skip the quizzes, but do the tests. Every now and then, though, we do a Pop Quiz. ;)

 

[kirstenhill]

We also skip the quizes but usually do the tests. My DD isn't very speedy at math and doesn't have the stamina to work for a long time, so we actually take two days to do a test, and she isn't doing all the review problems every day. I want to help her increase her math stamina this year, but we probably still won't do the quizes because they feel like overkill to me.