how long should this take?

[choirfarm]

Ok, middle son had a page of fractions to simplify: 18/20, 4/24, etc. There were 60 of them. He worked for 10 minutes and got half of them done. That just seems really slow and he wasn't procrastinating. I'm guessing I could have them all done in less than 5 minutes... MMM.. He's in 5th grade and I just started doing the Key to Fractions book2 just to help him review as we have covered everything in it in Horizons. I really wanted to do book 3 and 4 and thought we would do this book 2 in a week. My oldest would do 7 or 8 pages a day at least and easily finish one of those Key to books in a week. So...what is reasonable?

Christine

[kim in ks]

I to have one that zips through math , and one that doesn't. My 5th grade daughter, is doing fractions w/ mathusee this year, and to reduce 60 fractions would take her at least 30 min. I have to allow 1 hour for her math each day. Hope this helps
kim

[JFS in IL]

My dd would be in tears if she had to face a page of 60 math problems, no matter how easy I thought they were. Could he do half now, then the other half after spelling /reading/???? to break it up?? If he does, say, half the problems correctly (or almost all correctly) will you let him stop?

[Lorna]

Seems pretty quick to me :blushing: Now there's an admission!

[Cadam]

My ds would freak at a page of 60 problems! Your ds is doing it at a rate of 3 a min. I don't think that's to bad. If you want him to be quicker you can practice his skip counting and make sure he knows his factors of different numbers. He obviously knows how to do the operation.

Don't worry, each child is different.

[choirfarm]

Yes, he is going to do the other half and the next page this afternoon. Like I said, his older brother did 6 or 7 pages a day. But then again, he went through Singapore 3A to 6 B in 18 months when we switched from Saxon so he probably isn't a good comparison. He just seems so lazy and slow in comparison.