Anonymous wrote:My kids loved Yahtzee when they were young and it really helps practice basic math skills. Both are advanced math students for their age/grade now (9th and 6th).

My kids liked blackjack. Adding and odds.

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Anonymous wrote:I would stick with legos, pattern blocks, and making stuff out of cardboard, cooking, and money skills. That will be engaging. If you go to ITS there will be worksheets aplenty, no need for any additional worksheets at home.

I’m not sure what you mean. ITS doesn’t use worksheets outside of the Eureka program.

I mean that my DC has done lots of Eureka worksheets at ITS. Sadly they did not even finish the K modules, though, and I did not feel like they really stretched DC's abilities in math. But the point is, there is no need for more worksheets. There is a need for more practical, applied math projects and math manipulatives to practice and solidify concepts and number sense beyond the context of a worksheet. That is how I make sure DC really understands.

Anonymous wrote:I would stick with legos, pattern blocks, and making stuff out of cardboard, cooking, and money skills. That will be engaging. If you go to ITS there will be worksheets aplenty, no need for any additional worksheets at home.

I’m not sure what you mean. ITS doesn’t use worksheets outside of the Eureka program.

Get a white board at home and write the problems for him.
20+33=53 for example. Write them side ways and below each other.
Start with the easier ones - smaller numbers and anything with tens. Show him how 2+2=4, 3+3=6 and how it just skipped 5 as an answer. Write them all out for his eyes to see, think about it and discuss.

My kids loved Yahtzee when they were young and it really helps practice basic math skills. Both are advanced math students for their age/grade now (9th and 6th).

Anonymous wrote:my ds just finished K in DCPS. we were recommended to use https://clever.com/.

Clever is a single sign on service. You sign into Clever and then you have access to a bunch of sites. Not all of them are used. ST Math and Zearn are there. There’s also a DC-specific URL.

my ds just finished K in DCPS. we were recommended to use https://clever.com/.

I would stick with legos, pattern blocks, and making stuff out of cardboard, cooking, and money skills. That will be engaging. If you go to ITS there will be worksheets aplenty, no need for any additional worksheets at home.

I wouldn't do any math programs for rising K. Real life math examples would be much better. For my rising 3rd, he's doing Reflex, iReady, and Zearn.

At ITS my K did the first four modules of Eureka and part of the fifth. Did not touch the sixth module (shapes).

also: I wouldn't worry about doing any math prep with your rising kindergartener! if you have math-related games that he or she enjoys, that's great, but you don't have to coach your 5 year old for kindergarten math.

If you're possibly going to be at Inspired follow the recs for Eureka math resources as that's what they use, too.

I’ve never used it but Khan academy supposedly has Eureka aligned programs.

St Math is a paid program. Zearn is free you just need to create an account. It exactly follows the DCPS Eureka curriculum.

What online math programs or apps does your elementary school use? We have a few math learning apps on the kids tablets but I am wondering what the teaching methods /programs are being used at dcps/dcpcs. I would like to make sure we have something similar to use over the summer to start thinking in the same ways they will use at school. Specifically interested in Prk transition to K and K--3rd grades. Thanks. (probably attending IB DCPS OR inspired teaching in the fall)