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math facts practice is boring
On Jan 2, 3:30�pm, "Stephanie" wrote:
Anyone know of any fun games to play to practice math facts? We have math blaster which is a ton of fun and very helpful. But I am looking for addition and subtraction facts to 12 to practice on. And I HATE drills. They make me think of a friend of mine whose father screamed at him while doing flash cards. Playkidsgames.com has some more "fun" type math fact computer games to play. We played the Timez Attack over here and it helped a bit. |
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math facts practice is boring
"Stephanie" wrote in message . .. Anyone know of any fun games to play to practice math facts? We have math blaster which is a ton of fun and very helpful. But I am looking for addition and subtraction facts to 12 to practice on. And I HATE drills. They make me think of a friend of mine whose father screamed at him while doing flash cards. Here are a couple my sons teacher showed us... Tree Solitaire where the Jack = 11, Queen = 12, and King = 13. The objective was to finds sums of 13 (rather then line up the cards like regular solitaire). Scoobee Objective: To develop the meaning of the 1 more than, and the 1 less then relationship. Place a deck of cards face down. Each player pulls a card and places the card on the table face up. Players, taking turns, call the number that is 1 more than the number turned face up. Player calling the greatest number takes the cares. At the end the one with the most cards wins. Salute: Start with three players. 2 of the players are the addends, the caller is the sum. The caller says: 1,2,3, Salute and the addends draw a card and hold it, face out, at their forehead. The caller adds the numbers in his head and says, "The sum equals..." The addends try to subtract their partners number to find what addend they are. The person who calls the other number first gets both cards. You'd have to modify if it was just you and one kid. I also play black jack with my kids. They love monopoly and that has counting in it. -- Nikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Brock 4/06 Ben 4/06 |
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math facts practice is boring
"Stephanie" wrote in message . .. Anyone know of any fun games to play to practice math facts? We have math blaster which is a ton of fun and very helpful. But I am looking for addition and subtraction facts to 12 to practice on. And I HATE drills. They make me think of a friend of mine whose father screamed at him while doing flash cards. What age are you looking for? #2 (age 4) loves me to do join the line games. I write sums (eg 5 +6, 4+12 etc) down one side and write the answers down the other in a different order and she has to join the sum and it's answer (you can have more than one sum to each answer to make it harder). She's been doing these for about 18 months now. I started them when she was trying to do sums (like her sister!) but struggling to write the answer as she was finding writing some of the numbers hard. The only difficulty is getting her to stop once she's started, and she can do a sheet nearly as quickly as I can write one. We do them for word recognition, and choose the missing word too. #1 never particularly liked them though. Debbie |
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math facts practice is boring
On Jan 3, 4:38*am, "Welches"
wrote: "Stephanie" wrote in message . .. Anyone know of any fun games to play to practice math facts? We have math blaster which is a ton of fun and very helpful. But I am looking for addition and subtraction facts to 12 to practice on. And I HATE drills. They make me think of a friend of mine whose father screamed at him while doing flash cards. What age are you looking for? #2 (age 4) loves me to do join the line games. I write sums (eg 5 +6, 4+12 etc) down one side and write the answers down the other in a different order and she has to join the sum and it's answer (you can have more than one sum to each answer to make it harder). The Singapore Math 1B Workbook http://www.singaporemath.com/ has such exercises. In general I think this series of math textbooks and workbooks is well done. My 4yo son likes it. |
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math facts practice is boring
"deja.blues" wrote in message news:Myjfj.16362$ZI4.671@trnddc08... "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 4:59 pm, "Stephanie" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message Math facts have been set to a rap music beat. "2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4" (but it's much more fun to listen to the actual song). My 4yo son has actually requested that we play such a CD, after he heard it the first time. You can Google "multiplication table rap music". Rap is not music and children should not be exposed to it in any capacity. The formal definition of music that I learned in university classes is "An organized compression and rarefaction of the liquid medium of the air". An unpitched composition for percussion, body percussion, or even found instruments (such as STOMP) is still music. And, by that definition, so is rap. Furthermore, the first skill any child develops musically is the development of beat. Rap, when divorced of the content of the lyrics, does do a wonderful job of demonstrating beat, rhythm as a subdivision of the beat, and that words have rhythms. Out of the children I've taught, some have an easier time picking up on rhythmic texts and lyrics first, and a harder time with the melodies, others pick up on the melodies. And you can tell by age 2 or 3-the child who will babble in the rhythm of a nursery rhyme or say the words correctly, but be totally off melodically, vs the child who will "sing" the melody with at least the rises and falls in the right place (although often not all the intervals), but may not have most of the words initially. This is often, but not always, gender linked. Eventually, with repeated exposure, both children will master the song, but the rhythmic child will learn something more intrinsically rhythmic first, while the melodic child will learn something more melodic first. So, if you have a child who is constantly clicking, popping, making body noises, and is generally a rhythmic/unpitched sounds child, by all means get the Addition Rap CD. It won't hurt them musically, and is likely to reach their primary music learning style and therefore to be an easy way to master the rote facts so long as there's a lot of application as well (learning the facts in one precise order doesn't necessarily mean that you can easily apply them and use them). If you have a more melodic child, one who loves to sing and who loves things which are more melodic, there are alternatives there as well. There are quite a few options at any teacher's store. Dr. Jean and HeidiSongs both tend to use familiar melodies, and can be annoying for parents but are picked up easily by young children. Twin Sisters tends to use more new material, but the songs are more complicated to sing, and therefore are more appropriate for slightly older children. And there are ones for almost every genre. I believe the same company which does the Rap ones does Rock and Country as well. So, if you have a child who just loves one genre, I'd suggest going ahead and looking for that genre for rote skills practice and trying to expand musical horizons in other ways. After all, the goal of this, and any rote learning CD isn't to teach music. It's to expose rote material in a way which the child is likely to want to repeat-and for that reason, using whatever form the child likes best is likely to have the most positive effects. |
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math facts practice is boring
"deja.blues" wrote in message newshtfj.1637$9e1.1503@trnddc02... "Donna Metler" wrote in message ... "deja.blues" wrote in message news:Myjfj.16362$ZI4.671@trnddc08... "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 4:59 pm, "Stephanie" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message Math facts have been set to a rap music beat. "2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4" (but it's much more fun to listen to the actual song). My 4yo son has actually requested that we play such a CD, after he heard it the first time. You can Google "multiplication table rap music". Rap is not music and children should not be exposed to it in any capacity. The formal definition of music that I learned in university classes is "An organized compression and rarefaction of the liquid medium of the air". An unpitched composition for percussion, body percussion, or even found instruments (such as STOMP) is still music. And, by that definition, so is rap. My bias is showing. If it helps a kid learn math, go ahead and use it. I just find it hard to divorce rap from its unsavory connotations. Music is in the ear of the listener, eh? No-GOOD music is in the ear of the listener. By formal definition, pretty much anything done with the intent to be music is music-but that doesn't mean that anyone else likes it or wants to listen to it! Personally, I'm just as happy that my daughter prefers melodic stuff to hyperrhythmic. But if your child is more likely to learn "multiplication rap" over "Schoolhouse Rock", it's not going to serve any great moral or artistic principle to remove an effective learning tool just because you personally don't like it. Musically, it's not going to harm your child's development. Just don't expect me to spend a music class teaching your child math facts, OK? |
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math facts practice is boring
"Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 4:59 pm, "Stephanie" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message Math facts have been set to a rap music beat. "2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4" (but it's much more fun to listen to the actual song). My 4yo son has actually requested that we play such a CD, after he heard it the first time. You can Google "multiplication table rap music". Rap is not music and children should not be exposed to it in any capacity. |
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math facts practice is boring
"deja.blues" wrote in message news:Myjfj.16362$ZI4.671@trnddc08... "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 4:59 pm, "Stephanie" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message Math facts have been set to a rap music beat. "2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4" (but it's much more fun to listen to the actual song). My 4yo son has actually requested that we play such a CD, after he heard it the first time. You can Google "multiplication table rap music". Rap is not music and children should not be exposed to it in any capacity. That is an interesting standpoint. That reminds me of the older generation discarding rock when it first appearred, though rap has been around too long to say it has just appeared. There are a lot of crap rap artists. But there are some good ones too. Music is a living thing. And cannot stand still. |
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math facts practice is boring
"Donna Metler" wrote in message ... "deja.blues" wrote in message news:Myjfj.16362$ZI4.671@trnddc08... "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 4:59 pm, "Stephanie" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message Math facts have been set to a rap music beat. "2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4" (but it's much more fun to listen to the actual song). My 4yo son has actually requested that we play such a CD, after he heard it the first time. You can Google "multiplication table rap music". Rap is not music and children should not be exposed to it in any capacity. The formal definition of music that I learned in university classes is "An organized compression and rarefaction of the liquid medium of the air". An unpitched composition for percussion, body percussion, or even found instruments (such as STOMP) is still music. And, by that definition, so is rap. My bias is showing. If it helps a kid learn math, go ahead and use it. I just find it hard to divorce rap from its unsavory connotations. Music is in the ear of the listener, eh? |
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math facts practice is boring
"Donna Metler" wrote in message ... "deja.blues" wrote in message newshtfj.1637$9e1.1503@trnddc02... "Donna Metler" wrote in message ... "deja.blues" wrote in message news:Myjfj.16362$ZI4.671@trnddc08... "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 4:59 pm, "Stephanie" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message Math facts have been set to a rap music beat. "2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4" (but it's much more fun to listen to the actual song). My 4yo son has actually requested that we play such a CD, after he heard it the first time. You can Google "multiplication table rap music". Rap is not music and children should not be exposed to it in any capacity. The formal definition of music that I learned in university classes is "An organized compression and rarefaction of the liquid medium of the air". An unpitched composition for percussion, body percussion, or even found instruments (such as STOMP) is still music. And, by that definition, so is rap. My bias is showing. If it helps a kid learn math, go ahead and use it. I just find it hard to divorce rap from its unsavory connotations. Music is in the ear of the listener, eh? No-GOOD music is in the ear of the listener. By formal definition, pretty much anything done with the intent to be music is music-but that doesn't mean that anyone else likes it or wants to listen to it! Personally, I'm just as happy that my daughter prefers melodic stuff to hyperrhythmic. But if your child is more likely to learn "multiplication rap" over "Schoolhouse Rock", it's not going to serve any great moral or artistic principle to remove an effective learning tool just because you personally don't like it. Musically, it's not going to harm your child's development. Just don't expect me to spend a music class teaching your child math facts, OK? Luckily my children "get" math. They also love death/speed metal, and I keep telling myself "at least it's not rap!" :-/ There are a couple of musicians in my family, and they are also very mathematically inclined . |
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