To be unimpressed that Ds's teachers used pants as a teaching aid?

[RoundtheMulberryBag]

I think this is very unorthodox.

It's a reading week so they're getting to do stuff "off topic" according to the previous newsletter although unsurprisingly there was no mention of using pants on a string pegged up and stickers on the gussets to make sums

And wearing of pants on head as a prize?

Inappropriate!? I hope they're not second hand pants. My dc spent most of the morning tearing their way round the house with pants hanging off them, they had to be frisked on exiting the house for fear of them packing supplies to take to school.

I saw two little girls out with their family at the weekend who were wearing pants on their heads with their pigtails poking out through the leg holes! My kids were really impressed and were nearly convinced to change their book day outfits to a underpants one, but maybe next year!

DecaffTastesWeird, IIRC your DD is still a small baby?

KS1 (probably KS2 as well) children generally love pants. Pants are automatically funny, as indeed is anything else relating to bottoms.

Publishers know this; that's why the children's section of my local bookshop looks largely like this... (and that's only including one of the Captain Underpants books, of which there are at least a dozen). These are recent bestsellers and award winners.

So it's taking something children love and combining it with Maths to help the lesson stick in their minds -- this can only be a good thing.