{"id":389,"date":"2007-03-21T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/03\/21\/immigrant-parents-can-help-their-children-adapt-to-elementary-schools\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:21:36","slug":"immigrant-parents-can-help-their-children-adapt-to-elementary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/immigrant-parents-can-help-their-children-adapt-to-elementary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Parents Can Help Their Children Adapt to Elementary Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dixon2\"<\/a>Imagine a second grader named Rosaisela who might face the following math problem in class.\u00a0 \u201cCarlos has saved $9.\u00a0 The next day he received his allowance.\u00a0 Now he has $12.\u00a0 How much money did he receive for his allowance?\u201d\u00a0 In a traditional class, one in Mexico or in various schools in the U.S., teachers would have asked Rosaisela to write a response like 12 \u2013 9 = 3.\u00a0 But in some primary schools in the Quad Cities,
\n the teacher could have asked Rosaisela to represent this problem in a different way.\u00a0 For example, the teacher could ask his students (like Rosaisela) to draw a diagram of the problem, to count forward from 9 to 12, or to use doubles (3 + 3 \u2026), and then, to demonstrate and justify their responses.\u00a0 This is an example of the type of mathematics that your child could face.\u00a0 It is possibly very different, too, to the process that you remember in your experience in Mexico or other parts of Latin America.
\nA few years ago I traveled to Guanajuato, Mexico, and observed instruction in public primary schools for a couple of months.\u00a0 The schools used traditional methods like those many schools use in the U.S. now.\u00a0 But some schools in Illinois are reforming their methods of teaching mathematics.\u00a0 Some scientific investigations suggest that these methods are better.\u00a0 In fact, according to some studies, students can learn how to solve problems in general and understand calculations much more readily when they are exposed to these \u2018new\u2019 types of instruction.\u00a0 Thus, it is necessary\u2014if parents of school children want to help their kids in schools\u2014that they become familiar with these new ways of doing math.
\nOne way to do this more easily is using daily activities at home that reinforce those math problems completed at school.\u00a0 For example, almost every day 1st and 2nd \u2013and often 3rd\u2014grade teachers review numbers on the calendar with their students.\u00a0 Using a calendar at home\u2014and keeping the new math principles in mind\u2014parents can reemphasize what their children are learning at school.\u00a0 The calendar activities can reinforce very easily the math processes and concepts, called \u201cnumber sense\u201d\u2014skills such as counting forward or backward, identifying doubles (the date, 3 of January, then, the 6th, 9th, 12th, etc.), noting even and odd numbers (1, 3, 5 versus 2, 4, 6), resolving word problems using dates on the calendar important to friends or to family.\u00a0 Just think about Rosaisela\u2019s math problem above.\u00a0 If her parents would have worked with her to succeed in identifying doubles and counting forward using the calendar, the answer would have been a snap.
\nBiographical note: Doug Dixon has been a professor of education for nearly 10 years and has taught educational research courses.\u00a0 More recently he has worked in and investigated more than 20 primary schools in Texas.<\/p>\n

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Imagine a second grader named Rosaisela who might face the following math problem in class.\u00a0 \u201cCarlos has saved $9.\u00a0 The next day he received his allowance.\u00a0 Now he has $12.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}