Her Head, It’s So Big!
Enough of this “math is hard” bullsh*t! My daughter rocks.
Tonight, Katie was working on her homework by herself. I asked Chris if he had reviewed it, he said no. So I picked it up to look it over.
I was pretty impressed. She’s managing rules (skipping by 2, subtracting by 3) in a pattern, as well as some basic telling time. The best bit, though, was the word problems. She hates word problems. But she got them all right. However, when faced with the challenge to “describe how you know the answer,” she answered, “Because I am smart.” I told her that she was right but made her change it anyway.
November 27th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
But she is smart. Sometimes teachers want to see the work when the students do problems in their heads. I got into trouble when I refused to do this in elementary school which I have always felt was unjust.