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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do people mean when they say "textbook" with regards to elementary school math?

My kid uses workbooks at school and these come home periodically when they are done, so we can see all the content and our kid's work. It's not like the textbooks I had as a kid because it's single use -- all the content is in the workboook and the kid does the work directly in the book instead of a separate sheet of paper. But the contents are pretty much the same as the textbooks I had as a kid.

I do sometimes wonder if not being forced to create their own work on a separate piece of paper causes something lost. Something about the mental organization it takes to read a lesson, look at the problem set, and then write the problems on a separate sheet and work them out in a way that is clear to a teacher when they turn it in.

However, all of the options for math supplementing also use workbooks. Is there a math tutoring program that uses traditional text books and kids having to re-create their work on blank paper? I am unaware of them.

So I'm not sure that supplementing is offering a big advantage over what is happening in class in this respecting. Everyone is using the same sort of materials. The main advantage of supplementing is that it's more time on math, and enables kids to work ahead so that when they encounter concepts in school, it's review instead of an introduction.[/quote]

Our district had a workbook but no textbook. The workbook never came home until it was sent home at the end of the year… for what purpose I don’t know, because very problems in it had been completed. What they did in class was math fact apps and iPad games. They brought home a single sheet of math problems maybe once or twice a week.

When we say textbook, we mean actual textbook. The materials come from the textbook. Homework is assigned from the textbook. Parents can buy an additional copy of the textbook to have at home if they wish to help kids understand concepts. It doesn’t matter whether there is an accompanying workbook or whether there’s no workbook and kids just work problems out on paper. The key is having an actual [b]textbook[/b]. [/quote]

Sorry typo fixed above. The TEXTBOOK is what’s important imo. [/quote]

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