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I Suggest Giving Your Kid A Math Book And Pay Them For Right Answers

Gizmo j

Gizmo j

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I was thinking maybe 1 cent per answer with a calculator and a nickel per answer without a calculator.


Most math books have the answers in the back, you should cut the answers out with scissors and keep it for yourself to review which answers your kid got right.

The order in which you're suppose to learn math is:

Pre-Algebra
Algebra 1
Geometry
Algebra 2
Trigonometry
Calculus

I think if my parents did this for me i would be a math wiz.




Here are some workbooks for every math level:


Pre-Algebra

Algebra 1

Geometry

Algebra 2

Trigonometry

Calculus
 
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Get 100 questions right, and you'd have a whole dollar you could buy... Umm... A pound of baking soda? Maybe a can of greenbeans! Just about any kid would jump at an offer like that!
 
lxskllr said:
Get 100 questions right, and you'd have a whole dollar you could buy... Umm... A pound of baking soda? Maybe a can of greenbeans! Just about any kid would jump at an offer like that!
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What would you recommend the price for right answers?
 
When my son was young (I think starting at the age of 3 and up) I would bring a blank notebook when we went somewhere and just write a bunch of math problems in it for him to solve. Simple addition problems really. He liked it and it kept him entertained. I used to call him calculator head. I am sure the autism had something to do with it. (His not mine)
 
Gizmo j said:
Edit: first I was thinking one cent per right answer, now I'm thinking 5 cents per answer


Most math books have the answers in the back, you should cut the answers out with scissors and keep it for yourself to review which answers your kid got right.

The order in which you're suppose to learn math is:

Pre-Algebra
Algebra 1
Geometry
Algebra 2
Trigonometry
Calculus

I think if my parents did this for me i would be a math wiz.
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I'll bet you would have earned at least $0.25.
 
Various ways of incentivizing learning in kids have been tried. The only one that shows long term benefits was, iirc, paying them to read a book.

Math skills degrade rapidly with disuse - ask any new college grad who took calculus freshman year to find a derivative and unless they continued in math classes, they probably can't.

But reading skills improve with practice and then don't degrade as much, since we're constantly reading stuff anyway. If your kid "gits gud" at reading early on in life, it's basically an easy button for the rest of their academic career, and as a nice side effect, they generally get pretty good at formal writing through osmosis.
 
I was getting an injection from my nurse and I told him about my idea and he said he might try it with his own kids.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
Various ways of incentivizing learning in kids have been tried. The only one that shows long term benefits was, iirc, paying them to read a book.

Math skills degrade rapidly with disuse - ask any new college grad who took calculus freshman year to find a derivative and unless they continued in math classes, they probably can't.

But reading skills improve with practice and then don't degrade as much, since we're constantly reading stuff anyway. If your kid "gits gud" at reading early on in life, it's basically an easy button for the rest of their academic career, and as a nice side effect, they generally get pretty good at formal writing through osmosis.
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I can't do any of the math I learned in college. Never had to for my job, but I write all the time for my job so all of the writing classes came in handy.
 
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Heh... I always sucked at math, and was pretty decent at writing(though terrible handwriting). That of course meant that for money, I do nothing but math, and no writing beyond terse abbreviations :^D
 
snoopy 7548 poised:

63÷8+17/4^3

8.140625

I had to use a calculator to get all those significant figures - too lazy to do them by hand.

I'm lucky - math always came easy for me. I ended up spending a lot of my career as an Industrial Chemist working in processing industries. Mental calcs in math to make rapid estimates of the result always came in handy. I learned early that making a good estimate to validate the "accurate" result by machine was really important - it helped to catch the occasional error before it became a problem source!
 
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It's funny they used to do something similar at schools in the 90s where you'd get coupons for like a Pizza Hut personal pan pizza for every 2 or 3 books you read and it just taught kids that reading is suffering to get cheap crap.
 
My cousin has a 4 year old, I told him about giving him a nickel for rights answers and he said he'll try it.
 
A nickel? Please I seldom have actual cash, let alone small change, besides a nickel is basically insulting
 
Hmmm. Given average tuition costs, instruction days, and homework per day, the average college student pays ~$6.60 per for the pleasure of working calculus problems.
 
Gizmo j said:
I didn't mean to give them an actual nickel for right answers, I meant to pay them in dollar bills that added up.
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Children should not be paid to to pay attention to what they are taught.

If they fail they should be beaten until they straighten up.🙂
 
Maybe if the kid is using a calculator, 1 cent per answer

But without a calculator, 1 nickel per answer.
 
It isn't 1950 anymore. A nickle is worthless. Ten nickles are still worthless. If the kid were smart, he'd tell you to go fuck yourself, cause staring at a wall would be a more productive use of their time. If somehow they find your offer attractive, well you'll then know they have a broom in their future, cause they won't be doing anything to change the world.
 
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