Anonymous
09/15/2020 12:06
Subject: Re:ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why are all you parents doing this with/for your kids anyway? You wouldn't be helping them if they were doing it at school.
I will supplement in other ways that are organic to our home life, but I'm not helping either my 5th or 2nd grader with ST math. The whole point is for them to be able to balance the logic and the math skills on their own. My second graders who is great and memorizing and following directions finds the logic portion/deciphering rules without words challenging, and my 5th grader who has great large concept skills finds the method easy but sometimes the skills hard.
Seems like that's the point of the program. To challenge kids to think a different way than their natural preference.
If your 5th grader is finding it difficult, then your dc's school started kids off on the correct levels. People here are complaining that its starting all kids off on first grade and not adapting quickly to level them up to somewhere more appropriate. No one wants their child staring at a screen for hours just clicking flower petals for no reason.
agree
Anonymous
09/15/2020 11:59
Subject: Re:ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Why are all you parents doing this with/for your kids anyway? You wouldn't be helping them if they were doing it at school.
I will supplement in other ways that are organic to our home life, but I'm not helping either my 5th or 2nd grader with ST math. The whole point is for them to be able to balance the logic and the math skills on their own. My second graders who is great and memorizing and following directions finds the logic portion/deciphering rules without words challenging, and my 5th grader who has great large concept skills finds the method easy but sometimes the skills hard.
Seems like that's the point of the program. To challenge kids to think a different way than their natural preference.
If your 5th grader is finding it difficult, then your dc's school started kids off on the correct levels. People here are complaining that its starting all kids off on first grade and not adapting quickly to level them up to somewhere more appropriate. No one wants their child staring at a screen for hours just clicking flower petals for no reason.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 11:58
Subject: Re:ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Why are all you parents doing this with/for your kids anyway? You wouldn't be helping them if they were doing it at school.
I will supplement in other ways that are organic to our home life, but I'm not helping either my 5th or 2nd grader with ST math. The whole point is for them to be able to balance the logic and the math skills on their own. My second graders who is great and memorizing and following directions finds the logic portion/deciphering rules without words challenging, and my 5th grader who has great large concept skills finds the method easy but sometimes the skills hard.
Seems like that's the point of the program. To challenge kids to think a different way than their natural preference.
There's no challenge. Its all mindless clicking.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 11:54
Subject: Re:ST Math
Why are all you parents doing this with/for your kids anyway? You wouldn't be helping them if they were doing it at school.
I will supplement in other ways that are organic to our home life, but I'm not helping either my 5th or 2nd grader with ST math. The whole point is for them to be able to balance the logic and the math skills on their own. My second graders who is great and memorizing and following directions finds the logic portion/deciphering rules without words challenging, and my 5th grader who has great large concept skills finds the method easy but sometimes the skills hard.
Seems like that's the point of the program. To challenge kids to think a different way than their natural preference.
I will supplement in other ways that are organic to our home life, but I'm not helping either my 5th or 2nd grader with ST math. The whole point is for them to be able to balance the logic and the math skills on their own. My second graders who is great and memorizing and following directions finds the logic portion/deciphering rules without words challenging, and my 5th grader who has great large concept skills finds the method easy but sometimes the skills hard.
Seems like that's the point of the program. To challenge kids to think a different way than their natural preference.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 11:46
Subject: ST Math
We got stuck in some place yesterday with the penguin where nothing on the entire screen was clickable. Maybe I need to be drunk?
Anonymous
09/15/2020 10:40
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the teachers/schools were supposed to set the grade levels, but it seems like almost all of them just used the default first grade setting?
Not almost all. Just the couple people posting.
There have been a bunch of separate posts in this thread. Do you think they are the only people in FCPS who had the same experience?
Anonymous
09/15/2020 10:39
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:So the teachers/schools were supposed to set the grade levels, but it seems like almost all of them just used the default first grade setting?
Not almost all. Just the couple people posting.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 10:06
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Ahahahahahahahah. I am a DCPS parent who suffered through 6 years of ST math.
Sorry Virginia! I wanted to burn that damn penguin in effigy.
Sometimes I would just do it for my kid after a big glass of wine. That's the only time the pacing made any sense.
6 years
. We didn't make it 6 days.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 09:57
Subject: ST Math
Ahahahahahahahah. I am a DCPS parent who suffered through 6 years of ST math.
Sorry Virginia! I wanted to burn that damn penguin in effigy.
Sometimes I would just do it for my kid after a big glass of wine. That's the only time the pacing made any sense.
Sorry Virginia! I wanted to burn that damn penguin in effigy.
Sometimes I would just do it for my kid after a big glass of wine. That's the only time the pacing made any sense.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 09:55
Subject: ST Math
So the teachers/schools were supposed to set the grade levels, but it seems like almost all of them just used the default first grade setting?
Anonymous
09/15/2020 09:40
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!
This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.
But it is starting all the kids in lesson 1 of first grade.
No it's not. Email your teacher if your teacher has done that.
Yes, it is. The petals are the beginning of first grade.
Your child's teacher sets the grade level. Email them if they haven't done that.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 09:38
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!
This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.
But it is starting all the kids in lesson 1 of first grade.
No it's not. Email your teacher if your teacher has done that.
Yes, it is. The petals are the beginning of first grade.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 09:35
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!
This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.
But it is starting all the kids in lesson 1 of first grade.
No it's not. Email your teacher if your teacher has done that.
petals are first grade- almost none of the people on here complaining about the petals have first graders.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 09:24
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!
This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.
But it is starting all the kids in lesson 1 of first grade.
No it's not. Email your teacher if your teacher has done that.
Anonymous
09/15/2020 09:08
Subject: ST Math
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!
This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.
This attitude is all that is wrong with education in 2020.