Comments on: Delayed Formal Math and New York http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2009/07/24/delayed-formal-math-and-new-york/ Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:15:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hélène http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2009/07/24/delayed-formal-math-and-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-143743 Hélène Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:28:47 +0000 http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/?p=2016#comment-143743 I live in NY also. AFAIK you don't have to be tested till the end of the 5th grade as the every other year peer review and then testing, starts at 4th grade. As for portfolios, these are only representations of the work done all year. If she's doing 2 days a week of written work you're more than fine as even a couple sheets a *month* in the portfolio is plenty. Don't offer the info to the reviewer that you are not doing "much" math. Learn to not give info to anyone when you are going off the beaten path. LOL Anything outside the status quo is always questioned; and pointed at first if there is ANY trouble. This is in any area of life. :) Maybe you can think of your hours as the institutional teachers do. I was taught this concept a longggg time ago. One hour is one lesson. If you finish your lesson in less than one hour, you don't penalize the child and make him do another, and maybe yet another. You say YAY, we're done for today! Remember in high school how a period (class-hour) was really only 45 minutes? Homeroom(s)--some schools have 2 or 3 of these also! lunch, study halls and btwn class passing time (which does add up at end of each week!) all counted as part of the 6hr day in school. You teach your child very intensively. The regs were written for classrooms full of children which the state has then attempted to translate into regs for parent-tutored children. You can accomplish very quickly what takes a class all day. A tutor giving state-mandated equivalent instruction for a student at home (suspended from school maybe) does not come for 6hrs a day, 5 days a week. He comes for about 3hrs a day, 3 days a week. Do the math. Stop stressing yourself and take advantage of your tutoring situation, don't let it whip you! :) I live in NY also. AFAIK you don’t have to be tested till the end of the 5th grade as the every other year peer review and then testing, starts at 4th grade. As for portfolios, these are only representations of the work done all year. If she’s doing 2 days a week of written work you’re more than fine as even a couple sheets a *month* in the portfolio is plenty.
Don’t offer the info to the reviewer that you are not doing “much” math. Learn to not give info to anyone when you are going off the beaten path. LOL Anything outside the status quo is always questioned; and pointed at first if there is ANY trouble. This is in any area of life. :)
Maybe you can think of your hours as the institutional teachers do. I was taught this concept a longggg time ago. One hour is one lesson. If you finish your lesson in less than one hour, you don’t penalize the child and make him do another, and maybe yet another. You say YAY, we’re done for today!
Remember in high school how a period (class-hour) was really only 45 minutes? Homeroom(s)–some schools have 2 or 3 of these also! lunch, study halls and btwn class passing time (which does add up at end of each week!) all counted as part of the 6hr day in school.
You teach your child very intensively. The regs were written for classrooms full of children which the state has then attempted to translate into regs for parent-tutored children. You can accomplish very quickly what takes a class all day. A tutor giving state-mandated equivalent instruction for a student at home (suspended from school maybe) does not come for 6hrs a day, 5 days a week. He comes for about 3hrs a day, 3 days a week. Do the math.
Stop stressing yourself and take advantage of your tutoring situation, don’t let it whip you! :)

]]> By: Becca http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2009/07/24/delayed-formal-math-and-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-143705 Becca Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:27:07 +0000 http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/?p=2016#comment-143705 I don't live in NY, but a site I found that has been very encouraging to me is www.livingmath.net It's Math through living books! Love, Becca I don’t live in NY, but a site I found that has been very encouraging to me is http://www.livingmath.net It’s Math through living books!

Love,
Becca

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