what homeschooling math is best for a 2nd grader?
August 9, 2009 by Homeschooling Support and Curriculum Tips
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Can you answer Rainbow kid’s question about Homeschooling?:
2+2=
doing math with money,adding,substractions, but is behind in math but is reading at a 2nd grade level.
We will be moving so i like to see her caught up for the next school year.
So I wanted to do some homeschooling with her in the summer that will help her.
Textbooks For Homeschooling
2+2=
doing math with money,adding,substractions, but is behind in math but is reading at a 2nd grade level.
We will be moving so i like to see her caught up for the next school year.
So I wanted to do some homeschooling with her in the summer that will help her.
Textbooks For Homeschooling
Homeschooling Feedback: I’ve heard Bob Jones is excellent for the lower grades.
I have my kids using MathSecret; that is by-far the most efficient way to learn math calculations. My 6 and 8 year olds simply loves learning math that way. You can check out their demo lesson at their website. Simply Google or Youtube for MathSecret.
Homeschooling Feedback: Flash cards and manipulatives such as coins.
If the math-facts are memorized and the child is a good reader she will be able to work out equations without much trouble.
Mastery of math-facts is crucial to learning math from a text book.
Homeschooling Feedback: Yahtzee is a great game that teaches kids how to add dots on the dice. We pulled out the dice to show my daughter how to do multiplication with the sets of dots, we also do addition and subtraction with dice so she can see the amounts of dots changing. Start saying over and over again the multiplication tables, and use different objects to show amounts, such as pennies stacked in piles of five, nickels, and dimes.
Driving in the car on long trips, have her do simple sums you make up as you go along. We just held up our fingers to show “4+4″, “2+2″, for example. Jacks is also a fun game to show sets, if you remember how.
Just make it fun rather than homework. Even my daughter agrees numbers on a peice of paper are not nearly as fun as the Yahtzee game.
Homeschooling Feedback: Houghton miflin has a reteach set of math materials for each grade.
When I first started homeschooling all three daughter were behind in math (They had been in public school up til then) I used the reteach books and they work very well.
One of the best things is it is a consumable, so your child can work directly in the book.
Houghton Mifflin is one of the more common public school curriculums, so it will be the same or ver similiar to what is being taught in your school.
Another alternative is to go to your local education store (most cities have one) - there will be materials that are sorted by topic and grade.
You can also go to your local Office supply store. Most (such as Office Depot, and Staples) have a section where educational workbooks are sold. Again they are sorted by grade and subject.
Even Walmart has a section, in office supply, with these sort of work books. I have purchased the one for second grade there for my youngest when I needed extra work sheets for her practice on.
It is very usueful to use things she can touch as part of her practice. you can count with mm’s (eat the right answers!) or even use poker chips. The poker chips are very cheap and are easy for little hands to manipulate.
Another good way to help with the homeschooling this summer is to tell her it is a “summer job.” She will be working to learn the math. As in every job, she will get paid for her work. a penny for each problem she completes is a big incentive. When she finishes an entire worksheet, she can get a nickle bonus. Be sure to have a clear plastic container where she can see the money add up over the summer. At the end of the summer let her spend the money on a treat.
When my girls were learning to read (we taught them before they started school) we paid a penny for each word. Trust me — money motivates!
Hope some of this will help out
Homeschooling Feedback: The one that fits his/her learning style the best.
There are many math curricula out there:
Math-U-See
Saxon
Abeka
K12 (uses Sadlier-Oxford text)
Singapore
ALEKS (online)
…and many more
As others have said, math games are also helpful. Here’s a great math info site:
Homeschooling Feedback: I recommend Alpha Omega Horizons 1st grade level. Horizons is advanced, so the 1st grade level is about what a second grader would learn in school. Of course, you could also have her take the placement test and then you put exactly where her skills indicate and work from there.
Homeschooling Feedback: We use and recommend Math U See. It teaches your child to visualize the problem by them building it with blocks then solving it. Before we started using it my daughter was way behind now she is very quickly catching up!