Hilary Duff Struggles to Help Son With Homework as She Stopped "Real" School in 3rd Grade

[just444]

Hilary Duff Struggles to Help Son With Homework as She Stopped "Real" School in 3rd Grade https://t.co/xviueP5l2B
- E! News (@enews) October 20, 2019

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Hilary posted on instagram about her troubles with helping son Luca with his 2nd grade homework

"This guy with his spirit and kindness. Homework is already no joke in 2nd grade. I stopped

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[colorheartsgrey]

To be fair, the way they are teaching kids to do equations now is different than how I had learned, in my opinion it's almost in a round about way of how I used to find answers lol. At least it is for my step son at his school.

[xtinkerbellax]

This is actually one thing I do remember about homework, is my mom would try to show me how to do a math problem but we had learned how to show our work differently, it's probably always been a thing.

[imabadkid]

omg yasss!! same!

[green_monsterx]

the way they teach math now seems so confusing to me, tbh. i mentioned in another comment, but i literally stopped being a tutor because it felt like the way i had to teach them math was by adding all these extra unnecessary steps when there were easier ways to solve the problem and show your work.

[anydoppelganger]

I used to teach at an SAT/academic test prep center, and although most of my students were high schoolers coming in for SAT prep, I occasionally had younger students in middle and elementary school and would do common core math with them. it may seem like more work initially, but it actually teaches students better numerical sense than the way we were taught in schools. tbh I feel like parents and older people (including myself here) are like "they changed it, now it sucks" but tbh they just don't want to admit that it IS a better system.

[green_monsterx]

perhaps, but it's not about not wanting to admit its not a better system -- i just don't feel like it is, at least for me and how i learn.

[anydoppelganger]

Yeah but it's just what you're used to (the same is true for me). If kids learn this skill set now, even if it takes a bit more time, they'll eventually have a stronger arithmetic foundation than adults do now and also be faster/have stronger mental math abilities. the comments in this post is proof of that tbh

here's a good article about why this method is better. the problem isn't with the concept, which is solid, it's moreso that teachers may be ill-equipped to teach the curriculum and parents are resistant to learning it/using it to help their kids.

[green_monsterx]

do you work for common core or something? i'm not interested in reading your articles. i took math all through high school and college and the way i was taught worked for me, it's that simple. i tried to learn the common core way and it did not work for me. i'm not telling schools what they should and shouldn't do with their curriculum, you really don't need to heavily push what you feel about common core math on me..

[anydoppelganger]

lmao clearly not? i learned the same way you did and it mostly worked for me as well, but that doesn't mean I can't acknowledge there's a better way. I'm just saying that the method is similar to the thought processes of people who have strong math intuition (people like my sister and bf, who have engineering/advanced math degrees.)

[anydoppelganger]

lol thank you for your nice comment

[my_moloko]

Yeah, my cousin is a teacher and I looked at the math textbook for her students and no joke, if I had to do math like that when I was 12 I would probably cry. It doesn't make any damn sense.

[invisible_cunt]

a good teacher will teach all the entryways to a concept/problem and encourage the student to choose the one that they understand best. there's usually more than one way to do something.

[colorheartsgrey]

I’ve never came across a teacher that does this but you’re right