#%#@$% 1st Grade Math homework... does this make sense to everyone?

[artvandalay]

Or am I dense?



The answers to #1 were traced, so they are correct. Questions 2 and 3 were done in the classroom today together so they are supposedly correct as well.

My son has to do the next page (I didn't take a pic) but it is the same as this "Guided Practice".

To me, this is really unclear. For #1, to go from the purple sphere to the pink rectangle, you are to go one space right and two down.

I get moving one space right. But then you go two down? How do you come to that conclusion when the pink rectangle is not in any one square? It is in the center of four squares.

And, questions #2, and #3 are just as crazy.

Maybe this belongs in bp... I dunno.

[cdlamis]

It makes sense to me since I see each corner (and not the physical square) as a space. So, to me, you do need to move 2 spaces down to get to the corner that is 2 corners further.
Hope this helps or that someone agrees with me!

[Melaine]

It does make sense if you stay on the lines of the grid rather than in the empty spaces. Except that #2 is backwards: It should be go 3 spaces right and 1 space up.

[KrisM]

I agree. It's a grid and all the objects are at intersections. Follow the intersections. #2 is wrong.

[LMPC]

The answer to #2 seems wrong to me. The others I get, and are the ways I would have answered. Each corner of a square is a unit...like you'd do on a regular graph. Why oh why do they try and make things so complicated

[kristenk]

I'm guessing the answer to #2 got transposed. You should go 3 spaces to the right and 1 space up instead of the other way around.

[elektra]

It makes sense to me since I see each corner (and not the physical square) as a space. So, to me, you do need to move 2 spaces down to get to the corner that is 2 corners further.
Hope this helps or that someone agrees with me!

you go across one full space to the corner.

[artvandalay]

AH, ok... So the answers to #2 are in the wrong spot. I kept trying to figure it out and he claimed they were all done in class together, so I knew they had to be right. I guess he just wrote them in the wrong spots.

Also I see now, it's really the "corners" and not actual squares. UGH.

I HATE MATH. Seriously.

Thanks!

[sariana]

AH, ok... So the answers to #2 are in the wrong spot. I kept trying to figure it out and he claimed they were all done in class together, so I knew they had to be right. I guess he just wrote them in the wrong spots.

Also I see now, it's really the "corners" and not actual squares. UGH.

I HATE MATH. Seriously.

Thanks!

I wouldn't assume it was your DS who made the mistake...(unfortunately).

[clc053103]

Ah, Envision.....just last week I had to call DS 's first grade teacher to ask her to explain a problem, and I know I am not alone. Since the nice folks around here have confirmed the correct answer, I am now studying your post for future use!

Your DS appears to be ahead of our class, possibly way ahead which concerns me....what topic number is this? I believe DS just started topic 9.