I tend to post about all the fun things we do here in our little school at home. Readers of this blog (all three of you) might get the idea that it's just all rosy and cheery all the time...that all we do is read, do crafts, cook, take field trips, socialize (imagine that!) and have fun. We do a lot of that.
We also do math. Or at least we try.
I used to be able to get my hair colored every six weeks. That is, I used to do it every six weeks until I started teaching Thing 4 math. Now I have to go every five weeks and I should go every four. I have a lot of gray hair. I blame it all on math.
Thing 4 does not like math. In fact, she hates math. She will do just about anything to avoid doing math.
She's not bad at math. Actually, she's quite good at it as long as it's not pencil and paper math. Ask her how many eggs are in four dozen and she can tell you without even stopping to think about it. Ask her how many weeks are in three months. She can tell you that, too. You can even ask her how much change she'll get back if the item she's purchasing is $14.50 and she gives the clerk a twenty.
But she hates doing math in school.
Math is going to be the death of one of us.
Here's a photo I took the other day when we were doing math. When I left, there were only two problems on the board...nothing else. The problem on the left, I worked with her. The problem on the right (the one where she is incorrectly subtracting from left to right) is the one I gave her to do while I ran and switched the laundry out and started another load. One problem. That's simple enough, right?
When I came back, the board looked like this:
Excuse me while I call the salon.
Good to know that everything isn't sunshine, rainbows and butterflies.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, I've meet adults who couldn't make change out of a twenty. I know it's easy to say when it's not your kids that I wouldn't stress over it too much. But I wouldn't.