It looks like a lot more work, but my daughter claims it’s the only way she can really understand how to multiply. When I checked her work, she had 10 out of 12 answers wrong and had to do them over again, some more than once until she got it right.
She used to do okay with the old fashioned method. Now, I’m afraid she’ll never be able to do it again without getting confused.
I hate to think that must be the goal the “educators’ are shooting for.
In two weeks she learned to handle the dingy in our busy waterway, she is very smart.
Perhaps it’s time to think about a new educational venue for her.
I think it works like this:
The schools purchase a crazy math and a crazy reading curriculum at great expense to the taxpayer, and even if they prove to be an abject failure, since they paid so much for them, they will use them, even if they are detrimental to your child and they know that they are detrimental to your child and every other child in the school. They don’t care, they will carry on, hoping for the best, but secretly knowing that the programs are the worst. They will never admit that they are failures — they will use the excuse that parents are too stupid to understand them. Math and reading scores will plummet because the stupid parents can’t fathom the new math or reading curricula and help their children, not that the teachers understand the programs or have the ability to help the children either. However, there is great hope that the next crazy math or reading program will be a success, but that’s after the superintendent and school board have long since gone and a new superinendant and board is in place, with a new crazy math and crazy reading program.
Ouch. Prayers for her and her educational future!
I think you can show her how to do them, now, though. That site covers it pretty well.