May. 31, 2007 - Modifying Ray's Arithmetic
Category • Math
I have for years now planned to use Ray's Arithmetic when my dd was ready for formal math. That time is now, and I'm finding as I look closely at both Ray's New Primary Arithmetic (this links to a copy of the actual text) and Charlotte Mason's math recommendations (page 253 at the link) that the two are not exactly in sync. I prefer to follow CM's recommendations, but I'm hoping I can modify Ray's to fit so that I don't have to create the whole shebang from scratch.
I think we can follow this course for the first several lessons. My lessons are numbered with Arabic numerals; Ray's are numbered with Roman numerals.
Lesson 1 - Lesson XI - work out the table at the top with counters and drill over that, with counters
Lesson 2 - Lesson XI - drill on the word problems, orally
Lesson 3 - Lesson XI - drill on the word problems, orally, but phrase them as arithmetic problems (2+1 instead of using the word problem format)
Lessons 4-6 - Lesson XXV - repeat three steps above
Lessons 7-60 - Repeat this process for each of the next arithmetic lessons, alternating addition and subtraction lessons. Optionally skip the last arithmetic lesson since it works with 10 and the implication from CM is that we would stop at 9.
Lesson 61 - Lesson XXXIX - work out the table at the top with counters and drill over that, with counters
Here I'm at a loss because I'm not sure if we should drill with word problems, as above, or continue straight to addition. Any thoughts are welcome.
Comments
Nov. 19, 2007 - Link?
Posted by Phyllis
Where is Ray's online? Your link just goes to a summary page about the book.
Nov. 19, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by lklivingston
Actually, the link goes to the Preface from the actual book. Use the arrows at the top to move through the pages of the book. (See the small window next to the arrows that shows the actual page number.)
Dec. 17, 2007 - more arithmetic stuff
Posted by Anonymous
if you want, you could drill with more word problems from the other arithmetic books on Google.
http://del.icio.us/cornopean/arithmetic