At the public school staff we left behind a year and a half ago. At myself.
The last few of my daughter's IEPs contained a goal of being able to identify coins. She wasn't adding and subtracting with any consistency in prior years, but they wanted a goal of being able to identify coins. Sounded reasonable to me. I signed off on it.
Dumb me. I didn't know enough to correct the staff. I knew they don't understand development. But I didn't understand enough about concepts of math and how to teach it to help my child, either.
Check this out: http://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com/2009/08/learn-to-recognize-coins.html
Don't teach the names of the coins first.
Wish I'd thought of this years ago.
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Calling coins by their denomination makes SO MUCH SENSE. Why didn't I think of that myself?
I'm not a teacher by training. I am fast becoming one.
Frustrating to continue to learn that your school "professionals" were way off the mark.
I've discovered sooooo many things since we've been homeschooling that weren't taught in a logical order in public school. And I won't even mention what a joke his IEP was...
Ah, PaintCrazy, you understand. You understand.
Sometimes, I think all special ed should be tossed so we can build it better from scratch, IEPs and all.
*sigh*
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