hands-on-mama Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Okay, I used to own Miquon-the entire set. I sold it off because I never could find a groove with it. Now that my oldest has jumped back over to Singapore, I'm considering it for my youngest. She is 6 years old and finishing up K (though she's more on a 1st grade level in everything). I don't want to start Singapore too early with her. I want to make sure she is ready for that more conceptual thinking. How does Miquon work. Why should we give it a shot for the next year or so? I guess I just never really understood how to implement it effectively. I owned the diary and the lab sheet annotations. 1 Quote
73349 Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Miquon works by connecting mathematical inquiries to real objects (the Cuisenaire rods). Eventually, the child develops a sense of numbers' values and how they compare. I feel that the rods go well with Singapore-style thinking, encouraging the child to compose and decompose numbers--for example, building a 10 with 9+1, 8+2, etc. People use the books in a lot of different ways. I used to just pull the next sheet--they tear out--and the rods, and sit with DS and help him as needed to read and work things out, trying to do the front and back of one page a day. I seldom used the teacher books, because most pages are pretty intuitive, but they're nice to have at hand. 2 Quote
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