I doubt they are necessary and from what missceegee is explaining, they are “practice” sheets for the lesson at hand. I doubt Richele uses them as she has not mentioned them in any of her posts. At this time I only have printed copies from Google Books of Ray’s so I don’t have actual printed books, yet, so I don’t know if I’m missing something from the lessons (they are super short, which is good, but…) and obviously I’m not as knowledgeable about CM’s math as Richele. I was thinking that I would present the lessons as written in Ray’s until I understand more from the handbook and use the worksheets as I felt necessary. My ds is loving the oral math for now, but I don’t really know what else to do with him…we are working on mastery of addition at this point (all I can do right now until I know more) and his brain is working hard at calculations in his head (we are using the manipulatives sparingly)…this has been good for him. I’d just like to work with my ds11, as well, and, although he’d love the oral, he would like some worksheets as well from time to time.
Back to Richele..I think she uses graph paper for the most part and probably zero pre-printed worksheets, but I know she isn’t against families needed to use what works for the child.
I don’t know if this is making a hill of beans sense..I’m in a bit of a hurry
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