2nd Grade Math Homework.
First of all, let me start tonight's "reflection" with this....I don't recall Sister Euphrasia sending me home with homework in Second Grade ever. Now that I am nearing 39, I could just be forgetting it, but I swear, there was no homework.
I work all day...and I would like to think that I work hard all day. Then I come home and about 4 nights out of the week, I open Danielle's red Homework folder and there it is. SECOND GRADE MATH HOMEWORK. (Accelerated Math....not sure if that means its really third grade math or just really fast second grade math, but whatever...) I get that sense of panic every time I see that paper in the folder. It's just more WORK.
And tonight, it was 2 PAGES. UGH. One page takes like a half an hour (or in Danielle terms, one TV show).
Tonight we were solving "function boxes". We had to figure out the function of the box...addition or subtraction. And then we had to decide where the numbers on the box should go, and of course there was ALWAYS a missing number that we, according to Danielle, had to "think really hard to figure out". AND THEN, we had to make up a story problem about our function box. They would give us a topic, and we had to make up a problem.
(And tonight, one of the story problems was about bananas. All I could think of is that Cousin Zoe doesn't like bananas.)
So, we spent some time tonight with addition and subtraction...we borrowed from the tens place and moved it to the ones place...just because you can. (Danielle asked me "how come we can just do that?" several times tonight and "Just because you can" was all I could come up with to answer her.)
We wrote stories about bananas, and M&M's, and apples and shoes.
And then Danielle asked the age old question...."Mommy, do you use function boxes at work?" I honestly had to fight back the giggles on this question....because I too was trying to figure out when the heck she will ever use a function box. So I told her that "Yes, Baby, I use function boxes at work all the time. They are very important."
One night down for this week, hopefully only 3 nights of math homework to go....
I work all day...and I would like to think that I work hard all day. Then I come home and about 4 nights out of the week, I open Danielle's red Homework folder and there it is. SECOND GRADE MATH HOMEWORK. (Accelerated Math....not sure if that means its really third grade math or just really fast second grade math, but whatever...) I get that sense of panic every time I see that paper in the folder. It's just more WORK.
And tonight, it was 2 PAGES. UGH. One page takes like a half an hour (or in Danielle terms, one TV show).
Tonight we were solving "function boxes". We had to figure out the function of the box...addition or subtraction. And then we had to decide where the numbers on the box should go, and of course there was ALWAYS a missing number that we, according to Danielle, had to "think really hard to figure out". AND THEN, we had to make up a story problem about our function box. They would give us a topic, and we had to make up a problem.
(And tonight, one of the story problems was about bananas. All I could think of is that Cousin Zoe doesn't like bananas.)
So, we spent some time tonight with addition and subtraction...we borrowed from the tens place and moved it to the ones place...just because you can. (Danielle asked me "how come we can just do that?" several times tonight and "Just because you can" was all I could come up with to answer her.)
We wrote stories about bananas, and M&M's, and apples and shoes.
And then Danielle asked the age old question...."Mommy, do you use function boxes at work?" I honestly had to fight back the giggles on this question....because I too was trying to figure out when the heck she will ever use a function box. So I told her that "Yes, Baby, I use function boxes at work all the time. They are very important."
One night down for this week, hopefully only 3 nights of math homework to go....
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