One of the things Anastasia’s teacher and I discussed before the holiday break was her math and how she does not know her times tables.
I decided that everyday she would write her times tables down from 2 to 12 at least once. After a few days while she was grounded I tested her. She didn’t seem to be getting them at all. Even with writing them so many times.
One thing I know, she remembers the stuff she writes down so this just didn’t make sense to me why she was not committing them to memory.
Today I had her do her time tables right next to me at our computer desk. I realized why it wasn’t sinking in.
She was writing a list of the problems, like 2×4= then after the list was done, she was going back and answering them.
This was ensuring she would never associate the question with the answer. So I had her change the way she was doing it and it is now working.
My goal is to have her memorized all the times tables before she goes back to school.
My daughter is almost 11. I have raised her by myself since she was just turning 4. Lots of people have helped me through the years, whether it was support, sanity, or simply an ear to listen.
I would love to say Anastasia’s mother was involved and there was shared custody, there wasn’t/isn’t though. I would love to say I had a steady babysitter to watch Anastasia through the years, I didn’t though.
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This is the best I had all week! Today, my daughter comes home, she forgot her lunch box at school again. Not a big deal, I tell her she is grounded until the lunch box comes home. Which equates to being grounded tonight, then tomorrow if she brings the lunch box home, she is good to go. That’s not my favorite though.
So she is doing her homework, she gets done and brings it up to my desk. We go over it together. The last math problem she has is this:
1,000 meters = 1kilometer
Tom and Isaac walked 2 and 1/2 kilometers along a hiking trail. How many meters did they walk?
Her answer, 2000 and 1/2.
I tried very hard not to fall out of my chair laughing. I corrected her and explained how to figure it out.
Simple moments in time like these is where we can really find joy in being parents.
