Aw! Thanks for the blessing! I need all the help I can get! wink

I had the same sort of trouble last year. DS(then)6 tried to learn the times tables, but it just wouldn't stick. He was growing to hate math because it was neither challenging nor fun...but boring and unpleasant. That seemed dumb to me, so I decided to try going off-road. Scary, but necessary!

Enter geometry, and it filled the gap beautifully. Happily, this year the times tables are coming easily. I really think there's a sort of sweet spot for that kind of memorization, and DS wasn't in it last year, but is this year. Hurrah!

So there's hope for your DS, too! smile

Kriston