[River_Wrangler]

I have a step daughter (collage grad) which produced a grandson age 12 who now lives with me. Daughter can't balance a check book or make change without a calculator. I help the grandson with his NEW math home work. It makes me crazy that he has never learned the multiplication or division tables. Correct answers aren't important in his school.

[joe fonebone]

New math!!!!!!!!! My son came home one day and asked me to help with his math. The problem was something like this: what is 2478 divided by 127, estimate the answer. Now, I am an estimator by trade, and told him to put down 1 for the answer. He said that was not right. I told him it was just an estimate, not a very good one, but an estimate nontheless. I then told him that if his teacher marks the question wrong, to politely tell this to her. He got the question marked correct.