Each week, my daughter has one piece of optional homework. It involves identifying letters and reading words and sentences. We record her times in each category. Ideally, she would repeat the exercise on multiple days to improve her times. She can master it in one day. An example? The sentence that gives this blog entry its title.
On Fridays, she gets a prize in exchange for a completed sheet. Her prizes have been various knick-knacks, and she’s been motivated each week to complete the short exercise.
Question: where is this kind of drilling for math?
Answer: it’s worth trying to do it on my own. We’ll see if it works.
Learning Together 