Foerster's taking forever - HELP!
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:48 am
For those of you with experience using Foerster's please give some advice. My son is doing Foerster's Algebra 1 this year in MTMM. He is excellent at math, starts first thing in the morning and works very diligently. Today he has been working for 2.5 hours and is still not done. This has been a recurring problem this year. I only have him doing the even problems, and at that, today I only had him do every other one of the evens from one of the sections because there were so many. He has always loved math and is starting to despise it. What do I do? Do I just cut more of the problems out? He is learning and understanding, so in that sense it is working for him. We only do math 4 times a week because we have co-op on the 5th day, so I expect that there is a little more time spent per day than there would be if it were being done 5 days a week, but we can't continue on with him taking half his day to do math. He is so frustrated with both the math and with himself because he can't get done more quickly. How long should an 8th grader be spending on math per day? I'm thinking 1.5 hours tops since it's only 4 times a week. HELP!! We need to figure this out or we won't make it through this year.
Thank you for any advice you can give!
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