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Hello ladies, I know you can help me because everyone is so helpful on this board and I feel I am in the right hands. We are using LHFHG and the Earlybird K Math 2A book and we are at the counting by tens page. I am having a difficult time explaining this to my dd6. She looks at me like I am making no sense to her. Can someone please give me some advice on how to help her understand the concept. I lose her when I explain that 1-9 is ones....she says no that is a 6, 7, etc. 10-19 is 10's....same respones. I know it is my explaination and not her abilities becasue of course she is a brilliant child.

I appreciate any help!

Hi. I will try to help, but am not sure I understand the question fully...so if I am way off on my explanation, just ignore me !

I have found the activities in the HOD manual to be so helpful in getting my little ones to grasp concepts...is she understanding the activity that goes along with the lesson? My kids don't always understand when I try to explain something with just words, but understand much better if I "show" them with Carrie's activities. If I understand correctly, it is place value that she is having trouble with? I usually explain the "tens" as how many groups of ten you can make, and the "ones" are what is left over when you can make no more groups of ten. We are actually starting grouping in tens tomorrow (LHFHG unit 15, day 4). Is that where you are?

I hope you get it figured out

I love the math u see approach to explaining place value, which uses the word "Units" for instead of ones.
My dd also got confused till I brought out the Number Street. Draw 2 houses Tens (will hold what ever your counting with up to 90 spaces) and the units house much smaller (only has 9 spaces) The concept is when all 9 beds are full in the Units house the next guy who comes along makes them move up one house in the street to the tens house. If 6 people come along 10 move into the tens house and 5 stay in the units house. Once we did this a few times My dd got it.

this is where I some times blend the MUS with singapore. And the counting of 1T for ten and 2T for twenty 3T for 30.. and so on.. It really helped my kids get the fact that tens is its own thing.. In fact *confession time* I was totally confused on this till Demme explained it to me then I was like Wow its so simple! I get it now.

Tansy wrote:I love the math u see approach to explaining place value, which uses the word "Units" for instead of ones.
My dd also got confused till I brought out the Number Street. Draw 2 houses Tens (will hold what ever your counting with up to 90 spaces) and the units house much smaller (only has 9 spaces) The concept is when all 9 beds are full in the Units house the next guy who comes along makes them move up one house in the street to the tens house. If 6 people come along 10 move into the tens house and 5 stay in the units house. Once we did this a few times My dd got it.

this is where I some times blend the MUS with singapore. And the counting of 1T for ten and 2T for twenty 3T for 30.. and so on.. It really helped my kids get the fact that tens is its own thing.. In fact *confession time* I was totally confused on this till Demme explained it to me then I was like Wow its so simple! I get it now.

We used this too and still do for place value. Worked wonders.

A light just went off! Thank you so much ladies. Those were the answers I needed. I feel confident about tomorrow and I know my little miss will be happier too! We do the helps in the guide but we are not on the same page as that help. Thank you Tmisek for the location of that lesson in the guide.

See, I knew this was the right place to find the help I needed