Bub finished all of the minilessons for first grade math in his First and Second Grade Math book (by Steven Slavin) so now he's in the middle of taking his final exam. I'm wondering how long it will take. The book instructed six or seven days, each day having a half-hour session. Yesterday he finished about half of the exam in 45 minutes and today only a page or two for the same time period. I've graded the first half, and for the most part I was impressed. He correctly answered all of the word problems, double digit addition and subtraction, fractions, etc. The section he got four wrong in (and if you get three or four wrong in one section, you're supposed to review that section to ensure the child thoroughly understands that lesson) was the first--counting from one to 100. Seriously?!?!
I have the horrible suspicion that he got bored. Or, since he neglected to put adequate spacing around each number, confused as all of the numbers squished into each other. But he wrote 38 twice, then skipped 55, 71 and 90. So we're supposed to review counting. He's been able to count forever, and understands the concept of infinity, but we're supposed to review counting. Because that's the one and only section so far, that he kind of failed.
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