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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^Adding that I COULD take her to a 2 hour math class, but that's more driving around and more time having her sit and work on academic work when I feel like she already does enough for her age. I'd rather she veg out and read a book than do another structured class.[/quote]

A 2 hour math class you are commuting to is a total waste.  Seriously. You could teach an entire year’s math curriculum in 30 min per day.  If you think your kid needs extra, just commit to 20 min per night every night. Or 2-3 week nights then maybe a bit longer on weekends [/quote]

But what is the point? Acceleration beyond grade level or what? DD is already doing 10 minutes of math a night through school.[/quote]

The point is to internalize foundational math skills so that, later, more complex mathematical processes and mathematical problem solving are easy. Even if a child can get A's in class, if the child is thinking through steps one-by-one and has not internalized the mathematical relationships, that child will be worse at mathematical problem solving than a child whose grasp of math is more intuitive and relational.

Think of it like reading. A young child who can read, but does not read often, will spend more cognitive brain power thinking through how to decode or how to interpret words they are less familiar with. A child of the same age, who reads daily and has built up effortless decoding, whose consistent exposure to written language has grown their vocabulary, is going to have an easier time connecting with the text. When reading is intuitive, there is more time for the more complex tasks of comprehension.  [/quote]

Yes but several PPs are saying their school assigns regular or even nightly math homework. OP says it's not sufficient and not checked closely, but I don't know what that means. Do they only get 10 problems that they check together in class, and it's graded on completion? Or they get daily math but it's only graded weekly? I don't know. In any case, it seems like that regular math isn't enough for OP's child and in her case, yes supplementation might be the way to go. Sounds like other parents in her child's grade have caught on to that, but I'm saying that's not necessarily the case in most schools.[/quote]

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