Originally Posted by Portia
UUUGGGHHH! The dreaded counters. DS spent WAY more time drawing those stupid circles and then COLORING them than he did actually doing, you know, MATH. DS had to draw 20 circles, then color in 13. This demonstrated 13 was 1 whole row of 10 AND 1 row of 3. Why they had to draw 20 circles to begin with is beyond me. Second semester 1st grade math!

Yep. UGH.