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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no rush. I teach 4th grade math. I could not care less if your kindergartner knows all 4 operations and can carry the one. All my students come to me knowing how to do this.  [b]What they struggle with is place value and problem solving.[/b] Things they should have been working on since kindergarten. I'm left banging my head against the wall. Let your kindergartners play with numbers by counting.  Just let them [b]explore manipulatives[/b]. They should not even know what the operations look like at that age.  [/quote]

Can you give some examples of things parents or teachers should do to improve these areas? What kind of manipulatives do you mean? (I'm not a teacher, obviously.)[/quote]

Different teacher here, but an example:get a group of 10 pennies and ask your child how many ways she can make two groups (looking for 1+9, 2+8, 3+7). Still 10 pennies even though she is moving them into groups. 
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Another teacher here. Decomposing and composing numbers are a great way to build number sense. I used paper plates in my classroom so students could visually see and manipulate the two groups. 10 frames are another good tool - use them for building numbers and instantly recognizing/computing numbers. For example students can recognize 1 filled 10 frame as 10 and count up on a second 10 frame to 20 (or even instantly recognize up to 20).

It's also important to expose them to the vocabulary - parts, whole, how many in all, etc. When using two digit numbers and 10 frames, unifix cubes, or base 10 blocks you can begin to point out ones and tens. [/quote]

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