If I see one more worksheet brought home from EnVision Math that teaches a "trick" to doing math I think I may explode! This week they are learning "compensation" to do multiplication. DH and I had to look it up to figure out how it was supposed to look on DD's scratch paper (since they have to show their work). All these "tricks" are just confusing these poor kids since they learn a new "trick" every few days.

Why can't they just multiply and get on with it?!?