****If you're coming here for the first time, scroll down to see where your child is at and start at that stage. We don't do grades, so much as stages. There are no ages. Simply start at the stage your child is at developmentally.****
Before you start this stage, your child should be finishing up their letters or at least mid-way through. At this point you can introduce them to writing out numbers. While you're doing this, why not introduce them to adding as well?
Now if you started at the beginning you will know they have already been introduced to the concept of adding, especially if you are working on the math textbook I included.
Now it is time to introduce them to writing it out!
I found this on a Montessori site years ago:
Why bother with 1+1.....just dive in! This is a little difficult to type on a computer but I will do my best.
8745323456654323456
1234323432344444442
Get a piece of graphing paper and line up the numbers.
That will be their one math problem a day.
It's that easy!
(just make sure there will be no carrying, not there yet!)
(just make sure there will be no carrying, not there yet!)
When they grasp the adding, they'll get two problems, one adding the other subtraction.
(again, no borrowing)
(again, no borrowing)
What's next?
Yes, carrying and subtraction!
NO
24
-19
DO
787766578
56787848
I like there to be at least 6 or 7 numbers, but you can write as many as you like.
I like there to be at least 6 or 7 numbers, but you can write as many as you like.
It may seem like they'll get overwhelmed, but since they have done this from the beginning they really won't know the difference. When their peers are in school spending a month introducing one additional digit at a time, they will be that far ahead.
Keep doing the math book I gave you from the early 1900's, just a lesson a week or so. That book moves quite fast so there is no reason to rush through it.
Make this step your priority.
Happy Homeschooling!
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