Ugh... DS8 has always liked math (well, not so much math class at school, but learning math concepts) and gotten pretty much straight 100's, but they've been doing estimating for the past month or so and UGH! It's been rough. DS haaaates it and keeps 'forgetting' to estimate and instead just putting down the answers. What is the point of teaching 3rd graders to estimate again? Kids who don't even have their multiplication tables memorized? Who haven't learned fractions or percentages? I mean, what are we doing with the match curriculum!?
