DS is in reception year .. he has not been the quickest on the uptake with reading but he is quite bright
Over the last month or so I've noticed that his numeracy is quite far ahead of what is set in class .. in terms of adding and subtracting he can do it in columns and he's starting learning multiplication
anyhoo I asked teacher for advice on how to teach multiplication and she said she didn't know because they didn't do it till year 1
Now should I be showing teacher the types of maths he's doing at home (asking to do at home) and asking her to support that in school time or should he just be continuing to do the stuff they do in school as a matter of course (they seem to do single digit addition whereas DS is adding in columns of thousands, hundreds, tens and units . and has just started to take away in columns too)
I know that there's lots of tasks in maths that do not involve add, subtract, multiplication .. but he seems so thrilled by it I just want him to feel proud of what he can do at school too
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Twiglett · 23/05/2006 18:47
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