NEM question

[WTMindy]

Maybe I should ask this on the highschool board, but how do you schedule NEW for your students? Do you just do one lesson per day? Do the students do all the problems? Do you do the classroom activities? Just curious how this looks for different people.

[Lorna]

We have found each lesson can take two to three days sometimes and other times they can be done in one day. As we have gone through the book I have realised that we needn't do all the questions. We do every second or third question (making sure we cover each type of question) and only if there is a mistake do we do the others.
We take an hour a day for maths but I have decided to allow an hour and a half from this week - of course this was also the week dd started to do the full exercises in half an hour! :001_huh:
I had no idea of a schedule when we started out. I would be very interested to hear how other people schedule NEM too.

[Jenny in Atl]

We try to do a section a day, but often it does take two to finish each. So, it takes us about a week and-a-half to two weeks to finish a chapter. Like Lorna, I have not made a set schedule, since some areas are much easier for her than others; we just plug away!

[sleepy]

I don't schedule NEM, I just have dd work for about an hour, maybe an hour and a half, every day. Many sections can be completed in one day, but some do take longer.

I often let her skip 1/3 to 1/2 of the problems, depending on how well she seems to understand the concepts... We rarely do the classroom activities.
When she finishes a chapter I have her do the workbook exercises for that chapter before we move on to the next chapter.

[kpupg]

how do you schedule NEW for your students?

My son is doing NEM and Life of Fred in tandem. For the NEM chapters, he does one lesson per day, but not all the problems -- usually half the problems. If he were having trouble, I would slow it down and have him do more problems over more days, but so far no problem.

Karen

[Lorna]

When she finishes a chapter I have her do the workbook exercises for that chapter before we move on to the next chapter.

Sleepy,
I didn't know there were workbooks for NEM or do you supplement with another programme?

I am so glad there seems to be a consensus on the scheduling of NEM 1. I must be doing something right...:tongue_smilie:

[sleepy]

This is the workbook we use: New Elementary Math 1 Workbook (http://www.singaporemath.com/New_Elem_Math_Wkbk_1_p/nemw1.htm)

It's not necessary at all, I'm actually only using it to slow my dd (11) down a little bit. :tongue_smilie:
One little warning about the workbooks, though: they're not written by the same people who wrote the textbooks. The workbooks provide some good additional practice, but occasionally we come across a problem or two that require more math than the textbook has covered. (in these cases, we just skip the problems, LOL)

[Lorna]

Thanks Sleepy,
I was thinking about how my son might use it when his time comes. This is very useful information!

[Jenny in Atl]

Work bk must be new! Ugh, I need to see if they have some for NEM2, if I feel brave enough to trudge on.

[Susan in TN]

Ds (6th grade) is working on NEM1 right now. Our goal for this year was to do Keys to Algebra 1-4 and NEM1 ch. 1-8. The first 4 chapters of NEM took ds the entire first semester to finish. It took a ton of effort. Some days he would spend 45 minutes on 3 problems. Once he got past ch. 4, he flew through ch. 5-8. He works on math for about 45 minutes per day. "Ideally", he'd do one section per day.

I had him do roughly every-other problem. Now that we are finished with the textbook, I'm having him go back and do the workbook pages for each chapter as a sort of review before taking the mid-year test.

Next year I'll have him finish up with the Keys to Algebra books, NEM1, and maybe work on a bit of Gelfand's Algebra (for fun - :))