Re: Teaching Math - concepts of more/less, greater than, less than

[Guest guest]

autinick and group,

Assuming the child is in about 2nd grade,what math curriculum is being used?

Is instruction in a group of less than 20 students of similar ages?

,Colin P's mom

[ ] Teaching Math - concepts of more/less, greater than, less

than

The school has tired everything - can someone tell me how to teach

quantity math to a 7 year old?

thanks

Leanne

[Guest guest]

I don'thave an educational solution, other than to suggest that the method of

teaching be meaningful. Maybe use game pieces, or whatever, that engage the

child, and make a game out of it, then work on generalizing the skill?

Just my 2 cents...

Judy (PA)

--------- [ ] Teaching Math - concepts of more/less, greater than, less

than

The school has tired everything - can someone tell me how to teach

quantity math to a 7 year old?

thanks

Leanne

[Guest guest]

Howdy,

Mostly questions:

What has been tried so far? What curricula?

Where are the areas of difficulty?

What does the student struggle with or has mastered?:

Can the student match quantity to numeral?

Can the stuent find a number on the number line?

Does the student understand a concept of " zero " or " none " ?

Can the student discriminate a concept of more or less when the

quantity is obviously vs closely more or less than??; i.e., 100 is

obviously more than 1, vs. 5 is more than 3, and vice-versa.

Can the student visually discriminate quantities?

Does the student know which numeral is greater?

Is a possible difficulty the direction of the sign > or < (lots of

kids struggle with that).

How fluent are the " mastered " skills?

All those are potential factors and difficulties. Identifying and

identifying the particular sticking place might give some direction on

prerequistie steps might have some pertinence to approach.

Just some thoughts,

Regina F.

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> The school has tired everything - can someone tell me how to teach

> quantity math to a 7 year old?

> thanks

> Leanne

>

[Guest guest]

this was hard for my son also, playing war, using ojects that he was

interested in toy cars m & m cracker, action figures even book I gave him a

scack and I had a stack he had to count them and tell me who had more.

autinick <autinick@...> wrote: The school has tired

everything - can someone tell me how to teach

quantity math to a 7 year old?

thanks

Leanne

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