Ok, I have tried to talk to teachers but they seem clueless I've searched for 2 days looking for a website where I could ask these questions but everyone wants money to ask a math question. I'm happy to find this site. Now the problem.
My 3rd grader is doing multiplication in school. They are trying to force this box method on him and it's confusing him because I showed him the way I learned math 20 years ago when I was in school. My way is different that most others because I learned from my father before the school taught me.
Anyways the problem is that he can solve 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication in his head in 5-10 seconds. He can show the work on paper if needed in the same amount of time. He can even do things like
(2x+4)(4x+5) in his head or on paper which they are not even teaching yet.
He always gets the correct answer but the keep giving him failing grades for not doing it their way. He has said that he's tried their way but that is so odd and time consuming that he suddenly gets confused and turns around to do it his way. The way that makes since.
Had same trouble when they were doing addition and subtraction it was so barbaric and want logical at all. And I had to fight like crazy before they would finally accept it.
So why are they failing him when getting the right answers? And had anyone else had problems with this new math some schools are doing?
My 3rd grader is doing multiplication in school. They are trying to force this box method on him and it's confusing him because I showed him the way I learned math 20 years ago when I was in school. My way is different that most others because I learned from my father before the school taught me.
Anyways the problem is that he can solve 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication in his head in 5-10 seconds. He can show the work on paper if needed in the same amount of time. He can even do things like
(2x+4)(4x+5) in his head or on paper which they are not even teaching yet.
He always gets the correct answer but the keep giving him failing grades for not doing it their way. He has said that he's tried their way but that is so odd and time consuming that he suddenly gets confused and turns around to do it his way. The way that makes since.
Had same trouble when they were doing addition and subtraction it was so barbaric and want logical at all. And I had to fight like crazy before they would finally accept it.
So why are they failing him when getting the right answers? And had anyone else had problems with this new math some schools are doing?