Master Designer Academy - Odds And Evens

Oct. 1, 2008 - Odds And Evens

My son has had a terrible time figuring out odd and even numbers. I have tried numerous ways to teach this to him. I have used methods beyond what the math book gave. Today, there was another lesson on it. I went a bit deeper again. HE GOT IT!!! I even tried to "trick him" which he loves. I started with one digit numbers and worked up to higher numbers. I threw in numbers such as, 756,967 and he knew it was odd. After dinner my husband tried a number like 365,000 and he knew it was even. YIPEE!!! One struggle area down.

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I was back to homeschooling BOTH of my children after a disastrous year in the public school. But homeschooling was even worse. One is now in public school and the other is in the Christian school. My biological children are grown, one married and going back to college and the other is in Guatemala through her college program. My adopted children are 9 and 8. They were prenatally exposed to alcohol, are ADD/ADHD, RAD and who knows what else. Last year in school, they concluded that they rule the roost totally. We tried to work on this concept for years and now it is worse than ever. And it is getting even worse with the 9 year old. The 8 year old is on meds that have helped a lot. We are spending a lot of time working on respect and obedience the parents' way. Our desire is healing for our children's hearts.