Hello. can anyone help explain how maths is taught these days. My DD struggles and doesn't understand 0-99 number squares but can happily do sums ie 52 + 52=104 for example, and can follow simple maths rules. She has never really understood a number line, finding it confusing. She is normally a very confident child, but the teachers seem to persist with these bloody number lines and squares, even though she can do all of her sums (with ease) in the old fashioned way, ie with one figure over the other.
.It is destroying her confidence and mine, too. We are happy to help her in whatever way we can but don't know where to start and can't seem to fathom what she SHOULD be learning. We just know she is below her age level in maths (despite being loads ahead in literacy). I feel utterly hopeless about it . Sorry for the ramble.
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How the hell is maths taught these days?
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coleslaw · 19/01/2010 21:33
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