The first
graders practice math concepts through counting stitches and rows by ones and twos as well as preparing their eye muscles for reading by knitting left to right.
Not exact matches
I used this with my first
grader for some
math facts
practice, but it would wonderfully as introduction to subtraction for your preschooler.
I know a little first
grader who will love doing this for
math facts
practice this week!
The nation's 4th
graders report using classroom computers for rote activities, such as
practicing and drilling
math concepts, far more frequently than for activities that require critical thinking, such as making charts and graphs.
In 2014, BGCA members who participated in Summer Brain Gain's project - based learning
practices showed significant improvements in reading (fifth - and eighth -
graders) and
math skills (fourth -, fifth -, and sixth -
graders).
More than a traditional 4th grade
math dictionary, this assortment of targeted lists, combined with exciting and challenging elementary
math vocabulary drill and
practice games, makes learning
math words fun for fourth
graders everywhere!
The field tests of the assessments produced by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium were intended to be a
practice run for the full rollout this spring, when all of California's 3rd - through 8th - grade students, along with 11th
graders, will take the assessments in both English language arts and
math for the first time.
Methe et al (2012) conducted a meta - analysis of interventions for basic
math in single - case research and reported «we found interventions involving
practice under speeded conditions and a carefully controlled instructional sequence produced the strongest effects,» echoing results from Powell et al (2009) who reported that timed
practice (vs. untimed) was crucial to an intervention for struggling 3rd -
graders to learn
math facts, and Fuchs et al. (2013) reporting similar results for 1st
graders..
Given that only about one - third of eighth
graders in the US are proficient in
math, and that over 60 % of community college students are required to enroll in developmental
math courses, it seems clear that our current
practices are not improving student thinking and problem - solving ability in mathematics.