Ds is 6 and in primary 2, he loves numbers and its always reciting 1-100 over and over, In class they are doing adding up from numbers 0-20, sums are set out in line fashion like this > 12 + 5 = ds struggles with this as he dosnt have enough fingers, he also cant hold a number in his head say 8 +5 hold 8 in his head then add 5 fingers he has to count 8 fingers out first, still with me....
So i showed his how i used to set out sums at school i.e >
12
- 15
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making it easie to work out and he got it right away, he got me to write pages and pages of these sums and got them all right, obviously not ones where he would have to carry a number etc but afterwards i was worried i may be making things harder for him or confusing things, do schools still teach this method later on?