I was a rebel. I taught them real math and told them to solve that way and pretend to use new math if teacher asked.
After I explained to my son’s 2nd grade teacher that he needed to add up his groceries in his head before he got to check out to be sure he had enough money and that her methods wouldn’t allow that task she shut up.
I also explained that diagraming and making outlines of the science book chapter by chapter was a waste of time for two reasons.
#1 every child learns differently and the point is to see what method works best for you noyt to waste time on what doesn’t.
#2 The book the “science teacher” had chosen wasn’t organized in a way that would allow it to be grouped into general and then examples or any other systematic way. The book just rambled though collections of unrelated examples.
I told her it took me three hours to make an outline of the book, that the outline was worthless and that I wouldn’t let my daughter waste her time on that kind of busy work because she needed the time to study so I did the outline. Sometimes you have to speak out clearly.
“I was a rebel. I taught them real math and told them to solve that way and pretend to use new math if teacher asked.”
I did EXACTLY the same - the idea is to teach the kid CORRECTLY (which means no calculators or computers) WELL BEFORE their ‘teachers’ can mess them up. Then, when the ‘teachers’ get to work on my kids, it’s just a game to them, like a puzzle, but IN NO WAY would they get their brains messed up, as they already know how to do things correctly.