{"id":320,"date":"2008-01-29T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2008\/01\/29\/low-traction-subtraction\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:26:54","slug":"low-traction-subtraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/low-traction-subtraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Traction Subtraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subtraction using Everyday MathThis is what a solved subtraction problem looks like using the technique my second grader is learning.<\/p>\n

At first she was drawing all sixty squares. I talked her into drawing tens as long rectangles.<\/p>\n

A page of homework is 20 problems. Each problem takes 3-5 minutes. She also has writing and reading.<\/p>\n

To fight the tedium, we used legos one day and a whiteboard another.<\/p>\n

But the teacher likes to see the written squares to confirm the kids understand. So while making things physical makes it more fun it only adds time.<\/p>\n

I know she’s drifting when she starts climbing the table or erases mistakes until the paper rips.<\/p>\n

Any constructive<\/em> advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is what a solved subtraction problem looks like using the technique my second grader is learning. At first she was drawing all sixty squares. I talked her into drawing tens as long rectangles. A page of homework is 20 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[470],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-teacher"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/subtraction.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}