ST Math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about sitting down with a scotch tonight breaking out DD's laptop, taking one for the team and getting her past the petals

Forget the glass; just drink out of the bottle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this evidence-based? Has it been compared and performed favorably against Kahn Academy, Singapore Math, Dreambox, Other methods of instruction?

Are you joking?

Dreambox is awful. Khan Academy is fine for what it is but it's not appropriate for reinforcement of concepts, which is what this is. Singapore Math is totally different (and in the country of Singapore, they are moving away from it towards a more Americanized type of math instruction).

[Anonymous]

Dude if your kid is stuck on the petals it’s not a glitch- it’s that they haven’t mastered it. It’s not place value only, it’s estimating. Once they figure it out, they will move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dude if your kid is stuck on the petals it’s not a glitch- it’s that they haven’t mastered it. It’s not place value only, it’s estimating. Once they figure it out, they will move on.

no it's that they can move through, but there are multiple petal questions across multiple levels each with annoying animations that need to load. Cut the animations and just ask them damn questions and it would be 5 minutes of busy work. My kid lost one penguin and still took almost 45 minutes to get to the blocks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: i just watched my AAP 4th grader who also started on place value and just spend 30 minutes rearranging petals. I thought this was a math program not vocational training for florists.

What a hot mess. She would have learned more in 5 minutes on Kahn.

My 3rd grade AAP student was doing the flower place value assignment over and over today ;/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about sitting down with a scotch tonight breaking out DD's laptop, taking one for the team and getting her past the petals

Me too. lol. I refuse to have my 5th grader waste time on concepts that she had already mastered in K and 1st grade!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dude if your kid is stuck on the petals it’s not a glitch- it’s that they haven’t mastered it. It’s not place value only, it’s estimating. Once they figure it out, they will move on.

I'm the PP above, she got it but I noticed that she was having issues with clicking the last answer fast enough? so then she had to start over. once she figured it out, it was ok.

[Anonymous]

A 5th grader in AAP math shouldn't have to waste hours clicking to estimate "tens' "one" or "hundreds" of petals in a pile. This is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this evidence-based? Has it been compared and performed favorably against Kahn Academy, Singapore Math, Dreambox, Other methods of instruction?

Are you joking?

Dreambox is awful. Khan Academy is fine for what it is but it's not appropriate for reinforcement of concepts, which is what this is. Singapore Math is totally different (and in the country of Singapore, they are moving away from it towards a more Americanized type of math instruction).

SO is it evidence-based? Has it been proven independently from what the ST MAth people say to be better than some other use of our kids' time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A 5th grader in AAP math shouldn't have to waste hours clicking to estimate "tens' "one" or "hundreds" of petals in a pile. This is ridiculous.

This is a teacher issue. My fifth grader in AAP started with ratios.

[Anonymous]

Teachers can assign content. I assigned content today.

[Anonymous]

We should all bring this up at the grade level Back to School Nights. My 4th grader is strong in math and the never-ending place value petals are completely inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about sitting down with a scotch tonight breaking out DD's laptop, taking one for the team and getting her past the petals

HAHA! So funny! I started taking over, I like doing the petals in a therapeutic OCD way, but agreed my kid doesn’t seem to be learning math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A 5th grader in AAP math shouldn't have to waste hours clicking to estimate "tens' "one" or "hundreds" of petals in a pile. This is ridiculous.

This is a teacher issue. My fifth grader in AAP started with ratios.

My AAP 5th grader started with large decimal numbers on a number line. He was not trapped in petal hell like my 3rd grader.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking about sitting down with a scotch tonight breaking out DD's laptop, taking one for the team and getting her past the petals

Okay, this is likely the funniest and best idea I have seen posted! But also a truly serious question - IS there even anything past the petals??? And if so, what? I'd love to give mine a light at end of tunnel.