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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, it's really quite early for your son to feel so overwhelmed by math. The beginning stuff should be review. Have you sat down with him and gone over the material they have covered, to see what exactly is bothering him?[/quote]

OP here - DC got very frustrated with homework and got most of the problems wrong. This has not been the case in the past. MS itself has been a bit of a transition, so this has just compounded it. Unfortunately, I can’t really help as this level of math is many years behind me in memory. The teacher is being supportive and believes they are in the right place and urged patience.[/quote]
Sorry if this is awkward.. but I have to wonder how is it possible that an adult cannot really help due to the math being "many years beyond"? They haven't started doing any remotely complicated algebra, and are likely doing basic word problems with variables, which should be... solvable for adults with common sense. Genuinely curious as to what topics and problems are assigned that it is beyond you and your child, because something doesn't make sense here. If you can give specific examples, we can help point you in the right direction in terms of what you or your child should study and/or how they should think about the problems.[/quote]

Are you kidding??? I have an undergraduate and professional degrees from Ivy League schools but I could not help at all once my kids were in 7th grade. I haven’t done any math since first year of college and I remember nothing, truly nothing.[/quote]

Why do we force all our kids to do all this useless math? [/quote]

You don’t have to force your kid to do anything. We don’t force our child, he asks. [/quote]

DP.  Whether the child is taking Algebra in 6th or 7th or 8th or 9th, they have it to take it to graduate.  So yes, kids are forced to take it.  Not yours, but others are.  [/quote]

I know people can access threads in a variety of ways so maybe you didn’t see that this topic is in the AAP forum. The discussion for this group is kids is more on do they take the class in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade. I don’t think that there is a parent whose child has been accepted into the Advanced Academic Program in their county that wouldn’t expect the kid to take up to Calculus.

A discussion of why Algebra is required for everyone would probably receive more participation in the General School Forum. [/quote]

Why must AAP include all subjects to this high level? At the expense of preferred subjects that would benefit from more time to reach high level or breadth? [/quote]

How many kids do you think there are who are advanced in LA and social studies and science but struggle so much with math that they don’t take Algebra? [/quote]

It is far easier to enrich and excel at math than LA.  You'll get the kid who is whiz bang brilliant at both, sure.  But often times you'll see certain children struggle with the non-math AAP curriculum.

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