Luckily since this is new to her, she was sort of enjoying picking what she drew pictures of - smiley faces, lightning bolts, etc. and was taking her time to draw each one out. However, if she has to continue to use arrays, I doubt her creativity will last long and her neatness will dwindle down to messy squiggles and simple x's and o's.
Ugh. This is DD's personal demon. Should she choose smileys or lightning bolts? Or maybe cats, horses, or trees? The entire homework turns into a multi-hour struggle with choosing things that DON'T MATTER. It's worse than creative writing - at least there she can make up a story that has some reason to include trees vs. cats. The actual math part takes seconds, the choices are impossible.
