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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's such a battle.

Just getting the middle schooler to show me their assignment is a battle, to be honest. The teacher even said at back to school night "I won't be able to look over every problem on every problem set so please go over your student's homework with them."

I feel like that is way too much to ask of parents. How does the teachers know parents can even do the math? I was a great student and some of the new methods are confusing to me.

I know my kid could do better with more checking and more help, but it's not a fight I can handle on a regular basis.[/quote]

And what happens to the student if the parent doesn’t understand the math and can’t check it?   [/quote]

For my kid, I had to relearn the concepts. I happen to love algebra but haven't done any in decades, so Kahn Academy and YouTube have been helpful. And I actually bought portions of my kid's curriculum digitally, which has answer keys and actually shows the work. My hope is that she'll become so annoyed with me doing all this to keep her on track that she'll just start doing what she should and simply CHECK HER WORK. In the meantime though, I'm actually enjoying the learning process for myself.[/quote]

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