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Anonymous wrote:I agree the Zearn stuff is useless. My older kid's Zearn assignments are also well below grade level. Our K'er has been getting math instruction most days, basic stuff like the number line and using what the call a Ten Frame with dots. I wouldn't sweat it too much. Get your kid a dice game or do 10 minutes of math with them and they'll be fine.

What grade is your older kid?

Second grade.

We are also at a Capitol Hill DCPS and I could have written almost this exact post. Math the first two weeks had them differentiating between socks (like “one has stripes and one doesn’t”); almost exactly what my PK3er is doing at the same school. We tried Zearn and my kid was bored in minutes. 5 exercises in a row of counting to 5? No initial assessment at all? I emailed the teacher and she bumped us to the last K unit, which is 1-20 (as opposed to 1-5). It’s all still remedial, but not bad for fluency so I’m having my kid race through it as quickly as possible like it’s a game. I am hopeful things might improve once we reach 1st grade. We’ve done an hour over 3 days and she’s about half way through this unit.

Anonymous wrote:I agree the Zearn stuff is useless. My older kid's Zearn assignments are also well below grade level. Our K'er has been getting math instruction most days, basic stuff like the number line and using what the call a Ten Frame with dots. I wouldn't sweat it too much. Get your kid a dice game or do 10 minutes of math with them and they'll be fine.

What grade is your older kid?

Anonymous wrote:Real question. Do you think this will actually change in person?

I don't think the pace and content will change, but there are things they can do in person that are much more engaging. As it is, the kids seem bored by the repetitive content because of the limits of the screen.

Real question. Do you think this will actually change in person?

My charter is doing way more reading/writing and literacy than math.

Our class is doing sorting, classifying, counting, number recognition, and writing numbers. I have no idea if my kid is bored. It's 25 minutes of her day.

Our EOTP DCPS school has math daily. Counting to 100, counting in “tens”, practice writing numbers, basic addition, etc.

My charter is also doing counting and shapes. 50 minutes per day. Most kids look completely bored. Any child who did prek (which is most in the class) already knows this.

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Anonymous wrote:My charter K has math every day but they have been working on shapes and counting to ten for three weeks. It's frustrating for my kid.

What kind of algebra do you think your 5 year old would be doing in kindergarten math?

I was hoping for some diff eq, but it's early so I won't send my sternly worded email just yet.

Anonymous wrote:My charter K has math every day but they have been working on shapes and counting to ten for three weeks. It's frustrating for my kid.

What kind of algebra do you think your 5 year old would be doing in kindergarten math?

My charter K has math every day but they have been working on shapes and counting to ten for three weeks. It's frustrating for my kid.

My kid's K class has done math 3 or 4 times for about 20 minutes each. They are counting and holding up the appropriate number of fingers. My kid is quite bored.

I agree the Zearn stuff is useless. My older kid's Zearn assignments are also well below grade level. Our K'er has been getting math instruction most days, basic stuff like the number line and using what the call a Ten Frame with dots. I wouldn't sweat it too much. Get your kid a dice game or do 10 minutes of math with them and they'll be fine.

We're 3 weeks into the school year and my kindergartner hasn't had any real math instruction yet (we're at a Cap Hill DCPS). They've been reading a lot of books during math/science class, none of which seem to have any math element. We tried Zearn and the content is more appropriate for my 3 year old than 5 year old (like multiple exercises of counting to 5). Are other K classes doing actual math instruction yet? If so, what are kids learning?