In thinking this homework is too hard?

[WimpleOfTheBallet]

Or is my 6 year old DD totally behind?

She's in year two... one of the youngest in the class...but I suppose that should be leveling out about now right?

She's come home with a homework sheet which is based on Handling Data...she managed the block graph work but was befuddled by this question

There are 21 crayons 4 of them are red, 6 of them are blue, 3 are green and the remainder are pink. Write this infrmation in the table.

Then there is a table with the colours written in boxes

blue, pink,red, green in that order and she was meant to fill the numbers in elow..she couldn't compute it at all...couldn't work out that it was a sum...

WHY are they sending things home which she doesn't know how to do? Don't they KNOW she does not understand the maths of it? Isn't ia bit useless if she doesn't understand it?

I wouldn't mind but it's a class of 15 kids with anassistant! Private prep. Is she behind where she should be iyo?

AIBU to go in and ask about this?

She's ok with things up till now mutz...

She NEVER feels like it Goblin

If it's the first time you've noticed, what's making you think she's behind and not just a one off?

But then you said you can sit with her for an hour doing homework...

Well if she's been ok up until now, I don't know why you're asking if she's behind?

Doesn't sound particularly hard for year 2 IMO. It's normal for children at this stage to need a bit of parental help with homework, but if she is really struggling perhaps she would benefit from some extra maths practice at home - there are loads of good websites with maths games.

PMSL at Zukiecat's dd having to write a two page essay on Hitler but not mention the war. Now that is hard.

Ok I've just carried out my own experiment -
tried it on my 6 year old (yr 1).

I first off just said to him
'If you have 21 crayons, and 4 of them are red, 6 of them are blue, and 3 of them are green, how many are pink'. He responded with '6'.

So I said:

'If you have 4 red and 6 blue how many have you got?' '10' and then 3 green '13' and you have 21 in total how many of them are pink 'oh 8'.

So not difficult for yr 2, but may need to be reworded.

I don't know Mutz....I thought maybe she's strugglng but I never knew.

wishing...I drew the crayons and she got it..I'm just annoyed a homework I think!

There are some useful games for Handling Data on the BBC Bitesize KS1 website by the way...

This is always the FIRST place I they go with homework difficulties

Thank you WilfShelf...will look now.

this website is bloody brilliant, DD1 was on it loads, and by choice as well

Oooh thanks AgentZ!

(like that...v Jamess Bond)

my summer born ds yr 1 had very similar homework recently except that he also had to generate his own table of data first. I guided him through it and he really enjoyed it and def took it in as he talked about making a graph for days afterwards.

Good for you and DS figcake