And facts. My kids couldn't calculate for years because they didn't drill multiplication tables hard enough.

Anonymous wrote:If you can, teach them how to read a clock both analog and digital.

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If you can, teach them how to read a clock both analog and digital.

They teach the kids strategies not facts. Some kids cannot do strategies well. If you google Eureka 1st grade math there are all kinds of worksheets, videos and guidebooks for free. I'd also get some kumon workbooks and work on basic math as well as math facts (flash cards, workbooks, fun videos/apps). We taught at home.

In 1st grade I would not worry about homework.

Talk about money and recipes and games/points/scores and make sure she's getting things right or at least practicing and you are giving correct answers.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any suggestions or resources for fun activities that align with Eureka math? Practicing worksheet by worksheet is one way to go but there have got to be other modalities?

Toy cars, coins, abacus, jacks & ball, dice, etc.

Count the car

Count the pennies, then use nickels to understand 1 nickel = 5 pennies.

Jumping jumping rope while skip counting.

Throw the dice then line them up and add.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any suggestions or resources for fun activities that align with Eureka math? Practicing worksheet by worksheet is one way to go but there have got to be other modalities?

Go to lakeshore. They have hands on activities to assist, like a whiteboard number line, tape daigram board, etc. You can use small items or toys to assist with physically moving and seeing the items to add and subtract. You have to make it fun.... worksheets are what gets returned home to students but does not mean they are not doing fun or hands on activities in school. In the younger grades, it is all about manpulatives. And yes, you have to reenforce strategies at home if your child is continually not catching onto to them.

Anonymous wrote:I would suggest reviewing the homework helpers and then overseeing the homework. It has helped my DD do much better.

+1000. The Homework Helpers in the Succeed books are often the only way for those of us who did not grow up with multi-strategy math to assist our students.

And yes, OP, multi-strategy math persists at least until algebra. My oldest finally got to algebra this year and it has been a relief. DC is doing much better without the overwhelming input of so many different ways to describe mathematical relationships. I think DC never made the imaginative leap of seeing all of these strategies as multiple representations of the same phenomena. I wonder how many kids really do, and how much that matters later on!

I would suggest reviewing the homework helpers and then overseeing the homework. It has helped my DD do much better.

Does anyone have any suggestions or resources for fun activities that align with Eureka math? Practicing worksheet by worksheet is one way to go but there have got to be other modalities?

Anonymous wrote:Do these specific strategies get used again in subsequent grades?

Yes. And more importantly is that it equips students with the ability to choose different strategies to help them solve more difficult problems as they get into higher level mathematics.

Students who take the time to master the strategies, learn and understand concepts, and memorize facts/formulas do well in math and are then able to use in other subjects.

Do these specific strategies get used again in subsequent grades?

3rd grade teacher here. Some worksheet get graded for accuracy and some get graded for completion or participation. She needs to know the strategies. It is not enough to do mental Math. Review a different strategy every time she comes home until mastery. I can tell my own child (also first grade) to subtract using a tape diagram, number line, etc and he can do produce the work although he can do it in his head also. I always tell him though the teachers can not see inside of his head, only what is on the paper.

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Help! First time MCPS parent here. DD has been bringing home graded math work from school, and I can’t tell whether she is mastering any of the concepts. Sometimes she will get a P when there are multiple wrong answers, and sometimes there’s an N, and it’s clear she wasn’t sure what to do. I think some of it has to do with the way she needs to show her work. DD knows how to add and subtract, but showing it in the various diagrams and such gets her all confused. The number of worksheets for 1st grade seems kind of staggering, and I think there is a level of overwhelm there. Is anyone else going through something similar? I have reached out to her teacher for any suggestions, but also would love to hear from parents of 2nd or 3rd graders… or anyone currently noticing the same thing. Thanks!