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conulyI don't want her doing more math than she's retaining, but I may increase what she does anyway. I don't know what's best here...!
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Date: 2016-03-10 02:39 am (UTC)Tell her she has to clean her room to be allowed more math, obvs.
(More seriously, I do not believe there is any such thing as "too much math". Like, one can't overdose on it. You're not going to someday ruefully confront her in an fetid alley where you found her doing partial derivatives. It won't decay her teeth. Make sure she continues to look both way crossing the street and she'll be fine doing all the math she wants.)
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Date: 2016-03-10 09:21 pm (UTC)There are two problems. The first is simply that I don't want to spend so much time on math that we don't cover other important things like history, science, or going out in the fresh air ffs. (Though if the weather holds nice, we'll start doing school at the park.)
Second, if she does too much, she doesn't seem to retain it as well, so we end up redoing all the work.
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Date: 2016-03-10 09:59 pm (UTC)None of those things hold a candle in developmental importance to cherishing and nurturing the holy buds of nascent self-directed formal study and the dawning passion for an academic topic.
In expressing a desire to do more math, the kid is actually sending out developmental tendrals in an incredibly important direction: she is beginning to see education as something she pursues, not something done to her by adults. She is starting to see education – educational activities – as means to her ends and adopting them as her own.
This is it. This is the thing that separates the sheep from the goats later on. Not all kids ever do this, not least because the regimental nature of schooling is antithetical to it; not having opportunity to go through this developmental process is one of the things that keeps poor and minority students at a disadvantage. This is the thing that if it is allowed to unfold in grade school and come to full fruition, makes a student a lion in the classroom in college.
Anytime a child says, "I want to do this work. This is work I want to do," it should be indulged to the utmost.
History can wait. Science can wait. Fresh air can wait.
Second, if she does too much, she doesn't seem to retain it as well, so we end up redoing all the work.
Doesn't matter. Learning the lesson, "it's considered a good thing when I chose to apply myself to challenging academic things" is so vastly more important.
Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that actually there are comprehension dividends to the do it - lose it - get it back pattern. I have to run off, and can't explain now, but I suspect that that actually results in deeper ultimate learning.