Hi,MrsRobinson wrote:Here is the short story. DD finished K and moved onto 1st. I just feel very much like I am not doing enough math with her. I just can't seem to wrap my head around what it is exactly I am to do with it every day. I see the grid in the teacher's manual, then I see the other pages with Math Boxes, games and so on. Frankly, I seem to not be getting the extras plugged in enough. We've played cafe a few times. We do the number of the day (not sure I'm doing that right either, anyone want to email me an example of one that is completed) You know, this all sounds so dumb of me, but I just feel like I'm not doing MFW 1st math the "right" way and that she will not be ready for the next step. Hence, the need I feel to buy a "package" math curriculum. I did create a math notebook with a Calendar, 100 Chart, tally mark and number of the day page in it. We do that daily.(and, sorry if I have asked this before...)
Here's a post with a photo of the number-of-the-day sheet:
http://board.mfwbooks.com/viewtopic.php ... =25#p54391
And here's a thread that I think has some good conversation about doing 1st grade math. There are other threads in the 1st grade archives as well, and some of those may give you more specifics. This one shows an interesting progression of Cyndi posts (hi Cyndi!) -- initially she plans to use Singapore, but in the end she doesn't need it. And as I understand it, her dd is very good at math

http://board.mfwbooks.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4724
Julie