Ha! CFK - I love your attitude. grin We are so lazy at our house as well. My DS definitely would not be into straight drill approach either. He would be totally into it if it were a game.

I have no idea about scores and WM and PRI or how I look on a test. But I do know, for me, math was excruciatingly painful and "boring" until I hit algebra. And then everything clicked and it was totally easy (I have a BS in Math and csci). I remember sitting in 3rd grade staring at a problem FOREVER while the rest of the class was done and off doing something else. Maybe I was overthinking things? And come to think of it, I never really knew my facts until algebra when I saw the need. We did memorize the table at some point, but I instantly forgot it until algebra.