Board 8 > What's a good learning resource for 5th graders?

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My brother's too dumb so i'm gonna make him smart. What's a good resource where I could get like...worksheets and crap to make him go through?

In fact my brother in 3rd grade is also pretty dumb so if you have any for 3rd graders too, that would be good.

Man my brother in 3rd grade gets homework every Thursday (2-3 pages) and has to hand it in on Tuesday. I don't remember 3rd grade being that easy.

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Can he not read? Not good at math?

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I don't know how good he is at English, but he just seems like a bad learner (when I was doing math crap with him). Really unfocused and the like. I'd say he's like...a B/B+-ish student which isn't good enough. I just want to try to pound something into him before I go to University. My parents (in my perspective, which is obviously biased) went a lot easier on those two than they did with me.

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Shining Force.

100% serious.

It has lots of reading, math, and problem solving.

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Actually I work at this tutoring centre (part time job). They have these worksheets there that i'd really like to get a hold of, but apparently the students pay like...$1000 for the programs with all the worksheets. >_> I'm fairly certain they're only $15 per booklet (with like...4 booklets: vocab, reading, writing, and math).

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Somehow I doubt making him play video games will make him smarter. While I see your train of thought, what he needs to improve is book smarts; not practical smarts.

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Maybe i'll get him on khan academy.

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My brother learned to read because he wanted to play zelda

true story

anyway, go to your library and get some textbooks. They usually have used books for sale, and some of those should be able to help. Make him work problems from the books.

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Focus issues?

I dunno, reminds me of well, me. It didn't actually get really bad till Sophomore, where I actually started to fail a class(ended up passing with a B). Though I also am pretty damn smart so that's probably one of the reasons I got so damn bored at school because I would finish stuff in class, I never had any homework. I also was a pretty damn good bullsh***er.

I don't know about your brothers, because it they may be too young, but I got my act together once I actually found something that could hold my interest and focus. Which was art and writing.
I don't know if extra worksheets that just have extra math problems, critical thinking, and writing and reading sessions would actually do anything though, if that was me in that situation and at that age, that would probably deter me even further from schoolwork.

Edit: Actually I wouldn't go so far to say I'm pretty damn smart, its just I was doing Arizona schoolwork, which is really easy. >_>

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are you smarter than a 5th grader

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That's the thing. I just don't think they're motivated enough to learn. I'd just like to get them started on that sooner rather than later. I'm pretty sure if I made them smart for a year with craploads of worksheets, they'd like school better and do better in it. I mean they like school, but I want them to be A students like I was.

This is the booklet my cheap boss uses at the tutoring centre:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=noHhtsLj91kC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=standards+based+math+3-4&source=bl&ots=5InmxsWvoQ&sig=b8uqtsPPrMt5EUJET_28IH7lpKE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jN_vTqmECMrl0QHsve3mCQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
It costs $15 so maybe i'll just buy this.

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That could potentially hurt or help. I know nothing about motivating others, especially kids. I always had to motivate myself in order to get crap done.

But hey, if they like school I could see it helping more than it actually hurting. I loathed going to school, it bored me out of my mind. The best part about going to school was getting out of school to hang out with friends.

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For me, I was "special" from when I was little. They made me split time in the next grade from when I was in pre-K (I lived in America at the time). Eventually I skipped grade 1 after a month of it. When I moved to Canada they put me in the gifted program. Guess I just want my brothers to live up to what I did (not to brag or anything).

Uhh...I think I liked elementary school. After I came to Canada, odd years would always be bad and even years would be better. First 2 years of high school were crappy (82-85-ish average) but i'm taking it more seriously and I have a 90 average now (grade 11), which is good enough for me.

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From: blue_bomb | #006
Somehow I doubt making him play video games will make him smarter.

Depends on the game.

This game is 100% guaranteed to make him smarter.

I'm a teacher (high school, but still) so you have to listen to me.

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From: blue_bomb | #011
I'm pretty sure if I made them smart for a year with craploads of worksheets, they'd like school better and do better in it.

Where do you get this stuff?
You can't actually believe this.

Imagine if you had worksheets forced down your throat for a year. Would you ever want to do another worksheet again?

The trick is that they don't need to like school, they need to like learning. Very different things, and the difference between a worksheet and an actual learning device.

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Wow I just read the rest of your posts. Please stay away from all young children's minds.

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Meh. I still think practice is the best way to learn something. And they already like learning; they just don't do as well in school. I'm 100% sure that if I started teaching them with those worksheets, they would take an interest in it.

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From: blue_bomb | #017
I'm 100% sure that if I started teaching them with those worksheets, they would take an interest in it.

...do you know what a worksheet is?

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Okay maybe the younger one wouldn't, but the older one definitely would. I can see the burning passionate desire in his eyes when I help him with his homework.

Well that's my take on it. What do you guys think I should do?

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Worksheets are literally the exact opposite of what you want to do.

I mean, honestly, worksheets were perfect for my learning style because it was all really easy and it gave me a chance to practice it a few times and I was done.

But most kids these days just like shut down when they get a worksheet.

This is my first year teaching high school chemistry and I have been blown away by how apathetic and stupid my students are.

I have no idea how to make some things interesting but I promise that worksheets are not the answer.

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