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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Counting by 10s Jeff and I recently reviewed the Florida Sunshine State Standards for Kindergarten, to see what skills specifically we would need to work on to be sure Parker is "up to snuff" with the expected public school system, and one thing we noted he hadn't done before was the counting by sequence (you know, count to 100 by 2s, 5s, and 10s), though they specify doing it with a number chart. Well, color me thrilled when today, when Parker and I were adding up some numbers (he asked me, "How much is 15 plus 16?" and I made him do it with me), and he started adding 10 to 10, then 10 to 20, etc. all the way to 100. I was so excited, I called up Jeff at work, and had Parker do it for him as well. And we never specifically sat down and taught him, just like we never taught him to read. A child's ability to simply grasp concepts without having them drilled in to them continues to astound me. Labels: homeschooling, math, Parker ------------------------------------------------
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