Kcab - Have you used any books or other fun game things for problem-solving with math? DS does math olympiads which is great, and I know they have workbooks and things with their sample problems. He also loves those mindware books that involve math: number junctions, codebreakers, sequencers, number circuits, logic links, etc. I think we got them all when they went on sale a while back. And we have some other word problem type books that he likes sometimes.
DS's writing got a little better this year too. He still isn't too wordy and but often gets annoyed on math problems that say "explain how you got your answer." He had a problem on his homework this week that asked something about when you divide a 2 digit number into a 3 digit number do you always get the same amount of digits as your answer..and then asked to explain. His explanation was "no they aren't the same, because when I divide 100 by 50 the answer is 1 digit but when I divide 900 by 30 the answer is 2 digits." In another explanation to a problem that involved dividing something evenly and having a fraction he said that you couldn't split up strawberries because it would make too much of a mess, lol. Gotta love it. At least he stopped the whole "I had fun. I played" bit. That was getting a little old.
