( 2 X _ ) X 7 equals 28

[NightWatcher]

This is from my kid's kindergarten computer work today.

Kindergarten for shit's sake.

I think when I was in K the big lesson was to not eat all the paste before shoving a crayon up your nose.

The computer program advances as the child continues to get them right. I took algebra, geometry, and stopped before Pre-calculus. At this rate I won't be able to help with math homework by the 5th grade.

[benld74]

1. If paste wasn't meant to be eaten

They shouldn't of given it a peppermint smell

[luvMIdog]

2. never fear college kids like to tutor for cash nt

[The Wielding Truth]

3. Amazing.Is it an advanced program?

[NightWatcher]

7. It's a self advancing program but they are being tested for the gifted program for next year.

I'm afraid the results will come back "your child is an evil genius. Go to realtor .com and start shopping for an island volcano hideout".

[Lochloosa]

4. You'll be lucky to make it to third grade...what no Trig?

[HopeAgain]

5. Wait... I think I can figure this out...

Anybody got a calculator?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. If the kid is capable of progressing

quickly in math, then this is an excellent way to do so.

I was driven quite crazy by the lockstep method of teaching math when my older son was in early elementary school. He had to plod along with the others, and then was somewhat held back because he couldn't complete timed tests as quickly as he was supposed to. meanwhile, he was playing around on his own with concepts like this.

[Squinch]

8. As a person who works with young kids (but not a teacher), to me it's nice but worriesome.

5 is when a kid's brain is meant to be learning self regulation (how to sit still and attend), experiencing the tactile world, exploring the senses, learning interactive play with other kids, branching out in their gross motor skills like climbing and catching and throwing.

Your child must be very smart to be getting that kind of question, and that is great. But these other skills have a lot to do with understanding and being comfortable in the world, making relationships, understanding one's own relation to the world. Neurologically we are programmed to learn them at this age. If we don't learn them at that age, we might not learn them at all (Do you notice that the rise of ADHD and ADD have exploded since we put kindergarteners and pre-schoolers at desks rather than in the sandbox and the swing set?)

Check out the Finland model. Kids play till they're 7 and only THEN do they start with academics. And they blow the doors off the USA and every other country academically.

Make sure your kid spends HOURS every day playing actively and doing things that aren't academic.