Oh my gosh....Too funny!!! I just had a little breakdown last night when my 4th grader had to do "partial sums adding" for his homework. He just finished 30 minutes of algebra in Stanford's EPGY program and then had to resort to doing "everyday math" adding....His teacher freaks if every little step isn't written down....It took the kid over an hour just to finish what would normally take him 5 minutes because he just didn't want to do it, and I'm yelling at him saying "Just do it!!!" "Why? Because you just have to!!!" Ugh.... Needless to say, it wasn't a very fun night at our house last night haha....