Math homework

Math homework, grrrr. I don't really like math, but elementary school math is fairly easy to comprehend. Last night, Mama was sitting at the dining table doing her homework, this is where everyone does their homework.

Mama is learning how to find the area of squares and rectangles right now, not too hard. It would have been easier for her if she actually paid attention to the teacher more, but that's easier said than done. I showed her how to do the problem once and she understood. Somehow, she managed to go and get confused again.

Daddy goes to help her. Daddy is the math wizard in our house. He looks over her work and told her which ones were wrong and tried to explain to her why they were wrong. "But this is how the teacher showed us how to do it Daddy." He tries very hard to explain, but she's getting frustrated and he's starting to get upset. Shows her twice how to do it, and walks away. Mama is in tears because she doesn't know who to listen to.

She is a lot like me. She wears her heart on her sleeve, and gets very emotional very easy. It's worse once the confusion and frustration hit. There are big wet spots on her homework from her tears.

I asked her if it were possible that she got distracted while her teacher was explaining the material, immediately her head went down and she was fidgeting. Yup. That's what I figured.

Across the top of a blank sheet of paper I wrote the formula. Then I showed her some examples of how to do it. The light bulb turned on! Yay! Ten minutes later, the homework was done. This was after she had spent over an hour struggling with it.

I am so not looking forward to Middle and High School Math.

Ciao