Yeah, I was just going to second that her methos follows the rightsmart math program. We are using that now. As for complicating math problems, my ds6 does that all the time. If I tell him the most straight-forward method, he says it's boring and wants to do it his own way. We had an issue with this today with addition and subtraction. I suggested using his fingers at one point, and he wouldn't hear of it. I held up my own fingers, and he almost went through the roof! LOL