I found out 3 weeks of math had been done in the packet, before they notified me in the last week of school that he wouldn't go to field day because he had only done one problem on the first of four packets - each with 12 pages.
I took all four packets home that day and he finished them - all 48 pages, so he could go to field day.
Lol! Thank you for that!! We have had some similar discouraging 'lessons' from teachers in math, but nothing so over-the-top. It was always strange to see our ds just wilt at the sight of these math work sheets, and even worse for timed arithmetic facts. Every 5th one he would just whiz through, but generally he just couldn't/wouldn't do them. The image of your son churning through 48 pages is brilliant (and the teacher who said 'put up or shut up' to an 8 or 9 year old? Completely ridiculous. Glad to hear he is moving on although it is a shame that teacher is left to mess with someone new.
