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[Darth Loo-knee]

I had to go and ask our eldests teacher how they were teaching simple adding and subtracting.  He came home talking about units and columns and moving things accross!  Had it explained and it still didn't make sense, far too abstract....which is an issue considering our eldest is autistic!  Shall be investing in some key stage 2 maths books I think.

His homework seems to be for us to do not him too.  He's 7 and had to research an indian village, then print out a photo, now its build an indian house!  Don't mind helping him but its beyond him so end up doing it!

The stuff Our eldest comes home with and has had to do at school is in my book stupid..
I know we are a multi cultured country but as far as I am concerned this is still a Christian Country. In RE they we doing different cultures which is fine, but went onto killing animals as different religions do it in different ways...... We know have a 15 year old daughter who since that day has become a Veggie...

[Martin_1962]

Maths - yes I have had to teach the children more efficient ways.

Primary kept on about number lines. I introduced them to numbers like

  123
+456
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  579

[MaxV6]

I guess it depends how much math you have to use in daily life....   if like me, your work often involves significant amounts of math, with big scary piles of statistical math, geometry and calculus,  (acoustics calculations , wave form analysis, fast fourier transforms,  for audio DSP etc etc ... )   then GCSE homework , is really not an issue...

if on the other hand, your routine life experience only stretches you to work out the finances each month, and the darts score on a friday... then i would hazard a guess some of it will sound like a foreign language.....    I can't think of even once that i've needed , for example, complex matrices and simultaneous equations OUTSIDE of work....   or the kids homework.