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Rod & Staff Grade 1 Math Student Book (Part 1), Third Edition
Rod & Staff Grade 1 Math Student Book (Part 1), Third Edition
$6.95
The Rod & Staff Grade 1 Math Student Book (Part 1) uses a mastery approach when teaching mathematics. This means that the student will spend a significant amount of time on one particular skill, such as addition or subtraction, in order to master said skill before moving on.
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| Weight | 1 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 10.50 × 8.25 × .5 in |
| ISBN | 9780739907146 |
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| Pages | 175 |
3 reviews for Rod & Staff Grade 1 Math Student Book (Part 1), Third Edition
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Daria Phair (verified owner) –
Because his parents had spent time orally teaching numbers and counting early on (he could count up to 100), this book was too easy and too repetitive for his kindergarten arithmetic class. He did benefit from having to write the numbers though. We used the whole book in half a year, then moved on to first grade where we used “The Wooster Arithmetic for Grade 1” (published in 1900, a free download on the Internet) and some of “The Rod & Staff Grade 1 Math Practice Sheets.”
Alexandra Haines –
This is perfect for kindergarten. We used the junior kindergarten for preschool and he transitioned very well to kindergarten. The workbook reinforces the lesson and is long enough where you can see where your student is struggling, but not too long where it exceeds the amount of time allowed for the lesson. Thank you memoria for not only making homeschool possible, but enjoyable.
Ike Dishue (verified owner) –
Too repetitive. Two of my children, both of whom enjoy working with math and numbers, have pleaded with me saying this book is just wasting their time doing the same thing. Repetition is good, but if we want our children to grow to love learning, we need them to feel a sense of progress, and enjoyment in discovery, which this program does not provide. I still use this. I do find it supports a classical approach to arithmetic better than other popular options. However, I am ultimately disappointed. Hoping one day they rework this program to make it less unnecessarily repetitive and boring for students and maybe even make it exciting and enjoyable for them!
Lukas Swenson –
Rod & Staff is repetitive and can feel tedious, but we have found that as students progress through their math, they continue to make arithmetic errors that could be avoided if they had a solid foundation in their math facts, fractions, percent, decimals, etc. In fact, we have been trying an experiment in our math drills at Highlands Latin School this year by adding concept drills in the grammar school grades to replace some of the operation fact drills. We thought it would be more challenging to our students and help them to master the more difficult concepts they were learning. We quickly backed up and went right back to arithmetic fact drills because we found that our students could absolutely learn how to do long division in 5th grade, but they got their problems wrong because of arithmetic errors (subtraction, multiplication, not lining the numbers up correctly, …). And our 10th graders could absolutely learn the difficult concepts of geometry, but they kept making arithmetic errors. So we are back to basics – mastering math facts and basic arithmetic skills in grammar school to set the foundation for upper school conceptual math. Our students are fully capable of mastering the concepts we are teaching them, but they will continue to get the wrong answers if we don’t nail arithmetic.
Tanya