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Math Homework for Parents

February 26, 2013

By Sarah Vander Schaaff I fell asleep twenty years ago and awoke to find that numbers are added together in a whole new way. It’s called partial sum addition and if you’re the parent of a seven-year-old you might know what I’m talking about. Some schools send home a study guide or handbook to help parents help their grade school kids. Mine did not or if they did I missed it among the forms. It was only after a parent-teacher conference in November that I realized how different everything was, not only with addition but also with subtraction. “We don’t borrow from the ten’s anymore,” the teacher explained, “because you don’t ever really give it back, do you?” No, you… Read More

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