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Math question- age 7 – adhd kiddo
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I am relatively new to CM. I have a 7 yo w/ severe adhd and hearing impairment. I continue to search for a good math program. We use lots of ‘living’ books for math- such as the Stuart Murphy books. We used Rightstart for a year and that did get this finally off and running for us (after trying Saxon for a year.) However when we got to the 2nd book it was way over DS head and a bit over mine! So currently I am using Primary, Developmental Math (when we need extra practics) and Minquon. I love the ideas of manipulatives and that is one of the reason I liked RS. Less worksheets- more fun. however they actually work to distract Andrew. I have looked at MUS but I don’t think the videos would work with his hearing impairment. (He has a cochlear implant.) The worksheets give the scaffolding we need. He is an inconsistent kitty and I make our lessons for math VERY short. I also used a ‘time timer’ to let him know how long/short his lessons were to be. But he has requested..”no more paper math mom.” I told him I couldn’t promise NO MORE but I can promise less. So any other thoughts??? I have a curric. fair coming up next month and just wondered if there was something more interesting that we could take a look at. A final thought- although behind in arithmetic (he is 7 and doing some basic addition and subtraction) he is probably 3rd grade in geometry. He loves shapes of all kids. Are there programs that might be more ‘visual’ without using lots of manipulatives. The problem w/ them is that he will figure out all sorts of things to do with them except the required assignment.
Have you looked at either ShillerMath or MEP (Mathematics Enhancement Programme)? I use both with my children and like both very much. The advantage to MEP is that it’s free! It is very popular with other CM households. There is a very active Yahoo group, as well. Shiller uses all sorts of manipulatives, short lessons, and, for your son’s age, very little “paper” math. It also has a CD of songs about math concepts. Very catchy! Both of these are spiral programs, so you don’t get bogged down in one type of activity — keeps it interesting. check them out and see what you think!
Mastering Mathematics is also a good one–Letz Farmer actually developed it for easily distracted children. There are no problems on the facing pages, no color. There are rarely more than 20 problems on a page (and I have cut that in half when my dc were overwhelmed). She even has a page you can skip if the child is getting the concept (there are typically 6-7 pages per lesson or group, if you will). We do a page a day–or as I’ve said, sometimes one a day!
She goes through addition, then through subtraction, then multiplication, then division, then fractions and percents are interchangeable which one you go through. She does offer alternate routing if you have to take standardized tests. My younger 3 girls have only done this program (my older 4, 21 to 14, have done a variety! 🙂 ) and for the most part, they don’t hate math! It also comes with cardstock manipulatives, and fact wheels they can check themselves on. She even suggests a MWF worksheet days and T/TH game days with little bookwork. Lots of neat games! I just really, really like it. But sounds like maybe the freebies mentioned are neat, too! I might need to check them out, too!
The website is http://www.masterypublications.com
There are some samples there. Hope that helps!
Trisch
Thanks. I actually did dig out the Right Start today …seeing as I had already paid good $$ for it. We gave it a go today and DS did good! He even remembered place value stuff that we hadn’t done in about 6 months- so I guess the WAY they do it makes it stick. I’m making DH do +/- with him at night to keep plucking away at some basics but I’m going to do RS for a few weeks while looking at all the other great programs you guys and others have recommended.
amy
I was just reading on the Living Math site last night about setting concepts aside for awhile and letting them marinate. Sounds like it worked for your son!
Debi Z
I wanted to say that I dug out Right Start…we have only been back at it a week and this morning DH says…”Is this easy math mom?” he really thinks of it as ‘easy math.” And he’s doing thing like 2432 + 3412…. granted it isn’t ‘carrying’ numbers. it is just the ‘thinking’ side of things..but cool! I am still going to have DH do some brief (2-5 minutes) drill stuff with him at night.
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