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What a great meeting JBDad!!! Yes!

Would the teacher be open to you sending in a Singapore Math workbook? It's only addition and subtraction but if you don't know SM bar diagrams, you can only solve them using algebra. It would be a great way to extend addition/subtraction w/out moving on to multi/div. The problems involved multiple steps and it weans the kid off of having the answer to part a, being required info for part b ie DC has to calculate X which is needed to ultimately find the answer w/out being told to calculate X as part of the first part of the problem.

Also, from the livingmath.net site, there is a series of history of math books where at the end of each section, there are math problems related to the section. For ex: do addition using roman numerals, working in other bases etc. Those DS could bring to school, read on his own, and work through.