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I vote for Saxon math!!

"Math is hard, let's go shopping!"

This is hillarious! I need to find one of these for my daughter!

When I entered OSU in the late 70s I took a course called Math, the calculator approach. Thankfully, it was all the math I ever needed!

My son did Saxon math in first and second grade at a private school, and he was bored to tears. He is gifted in math, and Saxon is toooooo repetitive.

He's in public school now. Math was okay in 3rd, but now he's bored again in 4th.

I'm the worst teacher in the world so it's difficult for me to comment on this topic. However, there are some teaching methods that are obviously devastating to learning. My nephew's school switched over to that idiotic "group think" math method and it nearly ended his education. He's bright and got tired of the lazy kids in his group getting credit for his work. Getting a negative attitude about school is a bad thing.

I had my own bout with the negative attitude problem. The trigger was in 10th or 11th grade when I got a very low math test score even though I got the answers right (didn't show my work). A girl near me had the wrong answers yet she got a higher score. Why? Because she tried harder. My attitude was "screw this". I barely graduated from high school and flunked out of college (only got in because of the SAT). Funny thing is that the math teacher who gave me all the low scores later pulled me out of study hall to be in her computer programming class. I had been kicked out of Spanish class into study hall and was drifting. Programming was a perfect match and I'm still doing it 25 years later.

Anyway, I need to learn about the various school methods soon! Our 4yo daughter is bright and has an exceptional memory (to the point of being weird). I imagine the elementary school work will bore her, possibly causing an attitude problem similar to mine but much earlier. Adding to this is that she was born on Sep30, just a few weeks after the cutoff. So, she'll either be the oldest or youngest in her class depending on whether we send her to private school the first two years. My wife and I have struggled with this for quite a while. I lean towards her being the oldest and possibly a little bored. I just don't think it's right to have her struggle with school at such a young age. If she's truly gifted then she can skip a grade later on.

Anyone out there have to deal with this issue?

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