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hobgoblinnFirst: cool map. Shows where I have been.
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Next, Wee Hob has an old friend back. His 7th grade math book. As he failed this final quarter due to an epic failure to Turn In His Homework, he will get the joy of doing some summer work. The school isn't demanding it, and in fact their plan is to put him back in basic math in the fall, but I've seen his IQ scores. Putting him back into a situation where he can coast, be bored and antagonize slower kids with his insufferable know it all ness is not the best plan I've ever heard.
So I took him out for Ice Cream yesterday (to make the entire discussion more tolerable) and we discussed what he liked about his math book (turning it in at year's end) and why he chose puke green for a book cover for it, and how we were going to tackle the material and why.
In the end we decided (since not doing anything was not an option) that he would start by taking the unit tests in the book. Anything lower than a 93% means he has to do the chapter tests to see where his problem is, and so on. The really fun part? Math challenged mama hobgoblinn also has to do the work as a check. I figure we're unlikely to get the same Wrong answer. And if I do badly, I have to do the work and he has to do stuff to check me. Plus be insufferable at me that he knows it and I don't.
At the end of the summer we turn in the book and his notebook and ask for a placement test, and hope he passes it and impresses them enough that they let him into the regular classes. I think this tandem homework thing is going to have to carry over into the school year, as apparently whatever I'm doing is not working. Though I'm still convinced he's doing a lot of the work and losing it, as he is so disorganized.
That's really all for now. I have ch9 of In Loco nearly ready for beta and a start on 10. But I really need to get cracking on Summer of Giles here. Soon.
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Next, Wee Hob has an old friend back. His 7th grade math book. As he failed this final quarter due to an epic failure to Turn In His Homework, he will get the joy of doing some summer work. The school isn't demanding it, and in fact their plan is to put him back in basic math in the fall, but I've seen his IQ scores. Putting him back into a situation where he can coast, be bored and antagonize slower kids with his insufferable know it all ness is not the best plan I've ever heard.
So I took him out for Ice Cream yesterday (to make the entire discussion more tolerable) and we discussed what he liked about his math book (turning it in at year's end) and why he chose puke green for a book cover for it, and how we were going to tackle the material and why.
In the end we decided (since not doing anything was not an option) that he would start by taking the unit tests in the book. Anything lower than a 93% means he has to do the chapter tests to see where his problem is, and so on. The really fun part? Math challenged mama hobgoblinn also has to do the work as a check. I figure we're unlikely to get the same Wrong answer. And if I do badly, I have to do the work and he has to do stuff to check me. Plus be insufferable at me that he knows it and I don't.
At the end of the summer we turn in the book and his notebook and ask for a placement test, and hope he passes it and impresses them enough that they let him into the regular classes. I think this tandem homework thing is going to have to carry over into the school year, as apparently whatever I'm doing is not working. Though I'm still convinced he's doing a lot of the work and losing it, as he is so disorganized.
That's really all for now. I have ch9 of In Loco nearly ready for beta and a start on 10. But I really need to get cracking on Summer of Giles here. Soon.
