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I have been homeschooling my kindergartener for the last 10 weeks due to the closure of his kindergarten class resulting from the covid19 pandemic. Before this I didn’t teach my kid anything!

We do about 30 mins of math together 3–4 days per week. We started with arithmetic, order of operations, fractions, exponents, geometry, algebra, exponents, roots, logarithms, quadratics, systems of equations, graphing functions, binary/hexidecimal number systems, as well as calculus and linear algebra and basic probability and statistics.

you might be wondering how this is possible in just 30-minutes every other day in less than 3 months.

well basically we did only around 2 worksheets a day (10-20 questions), so around 70 worksheets.

here’s the key: unlike school which makes you spend years drilling how to count and add, we eliminated repetitive stuff. A kid’s mind is better suited for learning concepts rather than repeating the same pattern over and over. So we would spend one or two days on a topic, then move on to the next one.

For example, our section on trigonometry was maybe 5–6 worksheets and that was all. I didn’t want to make my kid repeat the same questions hundreds of times so to keep it interesting, as soon as it was clear he understood the concept and could answer a sample of questions on his own we moved on to the next topic!

We would also give him rewards for finishing new topics. Like he got a notebook computer for finishing 10 worksheets. And he earns screen time and books that he wants.

in general I don’t think teaching math to a kid will make him successful but rather it’s just a framework for learning how to listen and problem solve. This I think is the key to success in life.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net