When DS6 came home with HW to "count the dots" again.
I threw book in disgust , this piece of garbage math book.
I then pieced it back together and told my DS "finish this book" and I will buy you a $100 lego.
He flew threw the book , did 115 pages in 1 and 1/2 hours.
I then put book in envelope with note telling Teacher this book is too easy for him he needs harder work.

I have been telling her this and getting nowhere so now lets see what she says after he practically finished the book meant for the year in under 2 hrs.

I'll be interested to see if that approach works! Keep us posted! What fun - a new LEGO kit! My boys are salivating already for a new kit with Christmas approaching fast.

Dazey

Let me know when he gets to the 6th grade workbook....I might need his help...their approach to teaching fractions and percents is driving me nuts, and does not lend itself well to "spot checking" as I bounce around 5 different students, doing various levels of math, .

P.S...Also keep in mind that it's not just Everyday Math. I suspect he'd be equally frustrated with any K/1st level workbook.

ROFL - I love it! You'll have to post back if this approach works with the teacher.

Hope your DS enjoys those new legos! :-)

He's in a gifted school, right? What a shame they aren't working above level! Or was that the above level book? Be warned that this approach might cost you, as there are two of those workbooks per year, .

LOL Everybody, thanks for all the laughs at least.
And yes he is in a "gifted" class! That is the funniest part of all.

My DH emailed the princpal and told her we have a mensa child who is counting dots and we need to meet with her LOL!!!

We will see what happens.

By the way Kimck, he woke up at 5am hoping he could do them b4 school!

LOL, we are using everyday math as well with DS5. Thankfully the teacher just sends worksheets home instead of a whole book or else I would be quite overhwhelmed with the simplicity. She says that I can differentiate and make it more challenging...but I am hoping that they will do that as I have sent them math workbooks and printouts, etc. I just don't have the creativity to make an assignment 3-4 grade levels higher. They are trying, but when I see papers that come home that say "write the number that comes next: 10, 17, 13" That is a little much for me. We also had ones where we cut out numbers that we see in magazines and glue them to the paper. Last night he wrote his answers in roman numerals to make it a little more interesting. She did decide to give him his own spelling words now, which is great. We went from sat to furniture..so that is an improvement. Baby steps.

Oh my gosh....Too funny!!! I just had a little breakdown last night when my 4th grader had to do "partial sums adding" for his homework. He just finished 30 minutes of algebra in Stanford's EPGY program and then had to resort to doing "everyday math" adding....His teacher freaks if every little step isn't written down....It took the kid over an hour just to finish what would normally take him 5 minutes because he just didn't want to do it, and I'm yelling at him saying "Just do it!!!" "Why? Because you just have to!!!" Ugh.... Needless to say, it wasn't a very fun night at our house last night haha....