Eureka Math Support?

[Anonymous]

Eureka has been implemented in our school this year. Several kids are struggling particularly in the older grades. We are working with the parent guides and online resources but still struggling. Do any schools provide additional after school support? Thinking of advocating for this at our school but wonder if other schools are doing something similar. Trying to get a sense of what it would entail or any barriers that might exist. Would this be an additional cost to the school? Would they need to find teachers willing to volunteer their time? Please share suggestions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eureka has been implemented in our school this year. Several kids are struggling particularly in the older grades. We are working with the parent guides and online resources but still struggling. Do any schools provide additional after school support? Thinking of advocating for this at our school but wonder if other schools are doing something similar. Trying to get a sense of what it would entail or any barriers that might exist. Would this be an additional cost to the school? Would they need to find teachers willing to volunteer their time? Please share suggestions.

I would suggest the PTA get together a Math Club, no teachers will volunteer their time for free when the average tutor costs between $50-100/hour. Pay the teachers or pay for a tutor.

[Anonymous]

I would not think it is unusual for several kids to struggle in math regardless of the curriculum,

[Anonymous]

If you kid is struggling, get a tutor. Not sure why it matters that it's Eureka math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you kid is struggling, get a tutor. Not sure why it matters that it's Eureka math.

Oh, please. It’s a new curriculum, and curricula build on themselves. They have introduced terms and concepts in the lower grades that kids in the higher grades haven’t seen (because they didn’t have the same curriculum in the lower grades) and that the curriculum may not build in time to explain because it was already in the earlier grades. It does matter that it’s Eureka because it’s a change, and there may be missing pieces of the foundation that make the later tasks harder to understand. OP’s initial question makes sense. That said, I have no helpful info for OP. My oldest is in compacted 5/6 this year which is not using Eureka and my 2nd grader seems fine with Eureka. I think 2nd grade is a decent year to start the new curriculum because I felt with my older DD that second grade was a “holding year” with very little new content and mostly trying to solidify the primary concepts before moving on to multiplication and division in 3rd. So they can re-do addition, subtraction, and measurement the Eureka way and talk about “number bonds” instead of “fact families” or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you kid is struggling, get a tutor. Not sure why it matters that it's Eureka math.

Oh, please. It’s a new curriculum, and curricula build on themselves. They have introduced terms and concepts in the lower grades that kids in the higher grades haven’t seen (because they didn’t have the same curriculum in the lower grades) and that the curriculum may not build in time to explain because it was already in the earlier grades. It does matter that it’s Eureka because it’s a change, and there may be missing pieces of the foundation that make the later tasks harder to understand. OP’s initial question makes sense. That said, I have no helpful info for OP. My oldest is in compacted 5/6 this year which is not using Eureka and my 2nd grader seems fine with Eureka. I think 2nd grade is a decent year to start the new curriculum because I felt with my older DD that second grade was a “holding year” with very little new content and mostly trying to solidify the primary concepts before moving on to multiplication and division in 3rd. So they can re-do addition, subtraction, and measurement the Eureka way and talk about “number bonds” instead of “fact families” or whatever.

It's not a new curriculum for my kids- they've been using it since K. So there are plenty of people - teachers and tutors - who have experience with it. Hire one.

[Anonymous]

Maybe have the students who are not struggling help the kids who are. The teacher would sometimes ask my son to help the kids. It’s a win win for all the students and my son loved the experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you kid is struggling, get a tutor. Not sure why it matters that it's Eureka math.

Oh, please. It’s a new curriculum, and curricula build on themselves. They have introduced terms and concepts in the lower grades that kids in the higher grades haven’t seen (because they didn’t have the same curriculum in the lower grades) and that the curriculum may not build in time to explain because it was already in the earlier grades. It does matter that it’s Eureka because it’s a change, and there may be missing pieces of the foundation that make the later tasks harder to understand. OP’s initial question makes sense. That said, I have no helpful info for OP. My oldest is in compacted 5/6 this year which is not using Eureka and my 2nd grader seems fine with Eureka. I think 2nd grade is a decent year to start the new curriculum because I felt with my older DD that second grade was a “holding year” with very little new content and mostly trying to solidify the primary concepts before moving on to multiplication and division in 3rd. So they can re-do addition, subtraction, and measurement the Eureka way and talk about “number bonds” instead of “fact families” or whatever.

It's not a new curriculum for my kids- they've been using it since K. So there are plenty of people - teachers and tutors - who have experience with it. Hire one.

It’s new to OP’s kids and to all the other kids in OP’s school, which is different from you and makes your experience inapposite. It is reasonable for OP to think there are other kids in her child’s school in the same position and that working towards a group solution might be valuable. So you don’t need to be such a jerk about it.

[magrathean]

Anonymous wrote:Eureka has been implemented in our school this year. Several kids are struggling particularly in the older grades. We are working with the parent guides and online resources but still struggling. Do any schools provide additional after school support? Thinking of advocating for this at our school but wonder if other schools are doing something similar. Trying to get a sense of what it would entail or any barriers that might exist. Would this be an additional cost to the school? Would they need to find teachers willing to volunteer their time? Please share suggestions.

At least at the Middle School level, the "old" MCPS curriculum 2.0 "borrowed" heavily from Eureka Math (formerly known as EngageNY). I used to recommend EurekaMath to parents that wanted additional, reasonably aligned work. Indeed my biggest worry was that, with MCPS C2.0 leaning so heavily on EngageNY, I might inadvertently give away test materials. Don't know if that applied at the elementary school level to such a large extent, but I do know that I would occasionally see Eureka Math/EngageNY worksheets under the MCPS C2.0 guise even at the Elementary level.

I don't know if MCPS has suggested the Eureka Math "Homework Helper" workbooks, but you might want to give them a shot. They are reasonably cheap; full year book is about $20.