My sincere apologies to the OP for my part in the thread-jack.
No apologies necessary. It's been interesting to read what you have been writing about.
Even though I am somewhat pleased that my son is being accelerated to the right grade in math, for now, he is still going to have to sit through the nonsense of having to perform multiple methods to solve a particular problem. Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't have pursued the acceleration at all - just so that we could avoid this horrible everyday math.
