My ds7 in public school finishing 1at grade. No cursive yet. School starts in 3rd grade. But I taught him cursive the summer after he finished Kindergarten. His cursive is amazing. My dd4 will start Kindergarten this fall and she asked to lean cursive now. She has very pretty cursive. And she is 4.

I just downloaded app that's called King Of Math. My son loved it!

ok its the same way you would solve in traditional american way only your answer will be under the "8.00091" number.

give me example :)

totally agree. I am looking at Roket math for division and he needs to be very fluent with his answers and I need to check if he is fluent and i am the one who is not lol I know i will get use to it - takes practice :)

lol agree good play on words :)

I dont want this tread be a something to argue about. Both ways are correct and we get comfortable what we learned and we need to adopt (if we have to) to news ways. In my case I will teach my son American way because i have to and I will adopt to it myself. When he is good at it I most likely to show him my way just for fun and see what he thinks. This is really my first time looking into division that is done differently and whole outlook on how it is presented in usa. Again, both ways are correct but to a new eye the change IS confusing. The least thing I want is to start a thread to argue about. :) Just remember this video is from a person who JUST discovered a new way (American way) to do division and I have to learn it and be comfortable with it for my son. Here is little clip.

yeah its is fractions but you put 3 on top when you write an answer - so that is a bit confusing to see for me

is short division means you dont write out numbers under the original numbers? you just add tiny 1s and 2s to your original numbers? this is also new to me lol I thought (when i heard temrs of "long division/short division") I thought short division when you have single digit answer and long division when you have double or more digit answer lol... you can tell this is my first time dealing with american way hahahha

I like German way better too :) even though this is the first time i saw it here i think its super easy and logically - without lines. I think this would be my #1 choice :)

we also dont do X sign for multiplication :) we put dot in the middle between numbers (where x should be) and our division sign doesnt have a line between 2 dots. We have just 2 dots like this :

I will make a short video now :)

oh boy! math needs to be the same in all languages :)

he goes to public school. I was thinking to teach it my way but then all the books he got here in usa are showing american way so I think it would be better for him to know american way. Even when i teach him my way now I am afraid it will be hard for him to transition because its hard to transition for me.

we do Rocket math now for multiplication. I think during summer we will do Rocket math for division. My son (he is now 7 in first grade) learned multiplication within a month with super high fluency (less than 2 sec for thinking). So for summer I am planning: 1. Rocket math - division 2. Kumon workbook for Multiplication 3rd and 4th grade. He started 3rd grade book now. If he doesnt finish that (which I think he will) we will finish during summer. 3. Singapore math 2a and 2b and maybe 3a. They are all look way too simple. 4. Kumon book for division 3rd grade. 5. Kumon 2nd grade word problems

here is my try. 426 divided by 3. I so got used to write whatever I say first its hard to see 3 instead lol

lol why it has to be different!!!

no you dont lol... you say 15 divide by 5 equals 3 lol

american way hurts my brain lol WHY you dont write it the order you read it? grrr lol

we learn multiplication with Rocket Math as extra curricula (they dont do that at school yet). So we cannon take any break - we do it even on weekends. Since March 12. But he is almost done. I am thinking mid April we can start doing less. :)

i am from Europe and we do our division WAAAAY differently, I am about (not now but maybe in a month) to introduce division to my son... I CAN figure out but I am so confused... 3 5)15 it looks like a fraction to me ... grrr, Also the order you see it thats not the order you READ this... and that is the main part that confuses me. 15:5=3. You read 15 first but I see 5 first on the paper. What the.,... lol and why the answer is on top.... this is how we do it by the way... but that doesnt matter anymore... i need to teach American way and I need to relearn it myself. I think it will be hard for ME...

I have a 4 year old who is I "THINK" gifted in gymnastics too :) but i am probably a mom who thinks my child is the best anyways lol My son goes to gifted program in school for academics and my girl will start K this fall. at age 4 (5 in may) now she can do back handspring on the floor, back walkover and what not :)

Ok there are at LEAST 3 versions of it? what?!?! i am lost. I am afterschooling my 1st grader who is gifted in math and I would love to use Singapore for math afterschooling. - my main question, is that our book store sells white and blue large practice book that is called Singapore 2a, Singapore 2b. - NOW.... there is shorter books that are also Singapore books (standard and US versions). Will i be ok with the book that our bookstore sells? that is a white and blue cover?

- you said you cannon afford extracurriculars, and yet 2 hours of driving eash day (10 hours driving a week) just for school... sounds also expencive. Will you pay for lunches there? School is expencive as well. - you said kids dont want to go to school.... but they will make great friends (not from your neghborhood though, but new friends) its a tough call, I would say try (give it a month or 2) and see where your heart is. Trust your heart. Will kids be happy with CharterSchool? Can you afford it (driving and lunches), will the kids get all they need or still be not enough chalanged... You can almost go back to homescholing.

you can have best of both worlds - they can go to an excelent school and you can afterschool. Do they come home on weekends or every night?