[blparent] Helping children with homework?

[tmcgee3917]

Hello,
The only way I can think of to make this type of homework accessible, would be for you to bring some plastic sandwich bags to school with a pocket full of change. Perhaps, you couldget the classroom volunteer, to label the bags: problem one, problem too, problem three, etc.… You could work with the classroom volunteer to put the exact change that's on the problem inside the sandwich bags. This way you could count the actual money while your child is working on the homework. This would help you ask them how many quarters, how many pennies, etc.…
I hope this helps :-)
Another thing to keep in mind, this type of homework, is very short-lived, I have four children and the older three only engage in this type of homework for maybe four weeks of the school year.


Warmly,
Tracy Boyd
"If you dream it you can do it!" Walt Disney

> On Oct 19, 2016, at 8:14 AM, Mari Hunziker via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have been a stay-at-home mom raising my kids for the past 12 years. I
> have been helping my 12 year old and now 8 year old with homework everyday
> since they started school. I love it. I am legally blind and I have some
> residual vision.
> My question is - My kids have come home with Money Math worksheets
> (identifying, counting coins, etc.) How do you help your child do these
> worksheets? The worksheets are so difficult to see in order to discriminate
> the differences in the coins. How do you help your child with these type of
> homework sheets? Is there an app? Should I tell the teacher? What have you
> done?
> 
> This hasn't helped with worksheets but has helped for real life scenarios.
> -  I've tried to make it a point to try and pay in cash and coins at the
> market to give my children the opportunity to pay by counting out the coins.
> Thank you,
> Mari Hunziker
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