Please ask your Upper Montessori student to practice his or her math facts 2-3 nights per week for homework. Practicing addition and subtraction is important but at the Upper Montessori level we should be focusing on multiplication and division. If your son or daughter is skilled in those areas as well students could make flash cards for equivalent fractions or reducing fractions, fraction to decimal conversion, Roman Numerals…students in the 5th grade could also work on square root flash cards, or even order of operations, geometric figures, and rounding.
While using a computer games once a week is fine, please do not do this as the sole way to memorize facts. Old-fashioned flash cards are important, too! By varying the method you also make the studying more interesting and fun. The following web site has some links for flash card problems: http://www1.bellevuepublicschools.org/curriculum/k6web/3-6MathwebpPage.htm
Remember, vary the type of flash card practice. Also, when students are ready to move beyond division, visit the previously mentioned website for ideas.
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