Do you understand all of the assignments and math your kids bring home? I try, but a lot of this stuff is extremely new to me.
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I had to research the new requirements for how they have to do the work and help my kids after that. There are also classes parents can take to learn the stuff.
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I loathe the ânew mathâ theyâve added fifteen extra steps to how weâve done it. I basically have to re-teach myself how theyâre doing it so my son doesnât get his answers âwrongâ for doing it the âold wayâ
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I didnât so I got her in tutoring with someone who did. I know my faults lol
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Mathway is a website or they have an app you can download. You select the kind of math you are doing then input the problem. They will give you the answer but they also show you the steps to get said answer.
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I found YouTube and google help me a lot if not: I email my kids teacher to see if they can send me the practice work home too so I get it. Iâve had my kid come home and try and explain it. As sheâs explaining it she goes I donât need your help mom
Horrible. I hardly understood my daughterâs 4th grade homework!
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Yup! My kids school has videos on their web site to teach the parents how to do it. I still get it much faster doing it the old way.
I feel itâs the responsibility of the school to teach math, including after school tutoring and special help for kids that arenât âgetting itâ. IF the kid is putting in the effort. Parents should be responsible for making sure it gets done, not doing it, and certainlyâconsidering those who didnât pass math themselves, trying to help a child. Itâs like the blind leading the blindâif a teacher teaches math, and the kid is putting forth the effort expected, and still not getting it, they need to evaluate whether the teacher is effective, or the child needs a different approach, a different class, or special assistance.
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Lucky for me Iâm close friends with my old high school math teacher. And she helps me if I need it
I was told about Khan Academy and have found it to be a great resource for new and old math
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The new way is ridiculous, I show my son how to get the answer the way I was taught. Anything I dont remember I look up on google or find YouTube titorial videos. Also Khan academy is great
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I cant stand the new common core crap. It keeps my kids so confused
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Iâm horrible at math so my response is always go ask your dad lol. If heâs not around I use google.
Iâm good till it has letters in it
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I donât. Homework is not for me, itâs for my child. If my child is struggling with it, the teacher needs to know it (through incorrect hoemwork). If my child needs more help than the teacher can provide, then weâd handle that.
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I cant even help with my daughters grade 4 math lmfao!!
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Use the app called photomath. Its helpful
Yeah hes in 3rd its pretty easy though not hard yet , it also helps my sons favorite subject is math
They have changed stuff up so much that my son has to teach me how to do his 6th grade homework and what he needs help with I have to Google and we do the best we can.
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What grade? I am pretty good at math, but honestly sometimes I have to research to help my 6th grader. Her school offers Khan Academy and ALEKS which are great at helping her understand, but sometimes she needs her momma to help her.
I never learned common core, I can get the correct answer, but she will get marked down for not solving it correctly.
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I enjoy it ⌠If I canât remember how to do a problem I Google it and refresh my memory âŚbut the challenge is always fun and the one on one time is great .
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I was a teacher in reading for years in school districts and I canât do my grandson math. They really have screwed up math
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I donât. I have learning disabilities and math was my biggest issue.
My husband helps and I told their teachers from the beginning there was not way i could help and she just told her to just ask her if she needed help.
Stop doing homework in math with my child when she was in grade 5
Nope, our teachers have convinced my kids that I am stupid and donât know how to do it the âRightâ (common core) wayâŚand all other ways besides common core is Wrong!..so not happy
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Try first to ask your kid to teach you how to do it. It actually helps them learn better.
If that doesnât work, check out YouTube. You can find some AWESOME videos on all the new common core methods
Nope not at all. We end up teaching them how we were taught do to it lol
Send it back to the teacher with a. Itâs asking for help
Iâm not very good at helping my son and he is in the 9th grade I usually have to Google it
5th grade math NOW is the worst⌠I helped my son with it got all the right answers wrong format⌠Needless to say I had to find someone who knew how to do the homework
Common core is taught here. 2nd grade was easy. 3rd grade, I went to YouTube. 4th grade now and Iâm at a loss. đ¤ˇ
If it wasnt for my 2nd graderâs teacher sending home explanation sheets Iâd be lost⌠2nd grade! I do not like common core⌠doing it the ârightâ way my 2nd grader can do it and get it right⌠adding in these extra steps confuses herâŚ
I havenât used this app yet so I donât know how well it works, but it may help you
Our teachers post videos on their fb pages for the parents or send home examples. We do pretty good
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Throw the teacher away
Math is taught so different from how I learned. Thank goodness my husband is awesome at math. Anytime my kids brought me math to help them with Iâm like ask your dad 
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I have a third grader who loathes math. She stops listening in class and canât tell us how things are done the common core way. So YouTube has been our saving grace. Heaven help us the further she goes on school.
Iâve actually sent notes to their teachers asking them to send home an example so I know how to explain it to them.
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I failed every math class ever in school thatâs why I didnât graduate because I have no math credits so if math home work comes home they go upstairs and they help or we call Nana
Chelsea Bushnell are this is gonna be me lmao
It should not be taught in our schools
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We live in California. When I donât understand I go straight to the teacher. I have zero problems doing so lol because I cannot help my child if I donât know how they do it. Iâve also told their teachers this year that I know how to get the correct answer just in a different way. But common core standards, they must show that they know how to do it âthat way.â It sucks but we have four children with our oldest in high school and youngest in preschool lol itâs about adapting. I use to be that parent who had an attitude about just doing it the old school way. But 1. That showed my child a bad side of me⌠proving that I refused to adapt to the current education system. And I most definitely donât want my children thinking or acting that way about anything in life. 2. Please donât be embarrassed about asking the teacher for notes or instructions. This shows that you are serious about your childâs education and you want to help. You are doing amazing momma! You already took the first step and asked other mothers, now maybe send an email or note to class with your child. Your got this 
oh!! amazon has math books! If you are also under this common core standard, that have one for each grade level:) I got one too and it was very helpfulâ:star_struck:
We use an app called Class Dojo at my childâs school where you can contact the teacher like Messenger. If I donât know conceptual math I message her. Sheâs very helpful with pictures and diagrams.
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I have to take cliff notes on it ALL the time and its only 1st grade!!!
My husband and I are good at math. Weâre able to help with homework. It was my strongest subject in grade school and college.
My granddaughter is having trouble with her second grade teacher there is a way to do multiplication numbers with 9 is the trick with your hands it only works with a 9s she was doing time tables and she did the trick and gave the right answer and she tried to explain to the teacher how you use your hands in the teacher says there is no way you can do time tables with your hands I showed my granddaughter you can even look it up on the internet and it will show you how to do this so today is sheâs going to try to explain to her teacher again
Yep tried to learn it also, it was spawned from Satans teacher himself.
YouTube videos and we also video chat with other family Members so everyone can help
My daughter struggled with her math last school year. They offered an after school program to help her and it worked. This year is a lot easier for her (5th grade). But, when she needs help I am lost. I figure out the answer the way I was taught and help her that way. We sit together and she explains to me the way she is taught so I can learn as well. When all else fails we use Google.
I teach my boys the way I learned & Iâve made it known to their teachers. My oldest is in 5th grade & his teacher sends home a work sheet with examples for us so we are able to help him more.
The main problem we ran into with common core math wasnât the math itself, it was the teaching method.
Rather than teaching a broad scope of different problem solving techniques, the focus was primarily on one method. Now granted, all of these methods WILL get to the final product, focusing on just one method is quite hindering to learning and in some cases retention.
As we can see in these reference sheets, there is more than one way to determine the final answer. Not many teachers now days with the implementation of common core teach EVERY method. This is also not going to help anyone, especially as the students carry into more complicated math and need to apply more methods beyond memorization to get an answer.
All of these were taught when I was in school in the 70âs & 80âs and again when my children were in school in the 90âs & 2000âs.
Fast forward to my grandchildren in school and education is stymied in hyper focusing on ONE method that sadly, many of us either werenât taught or failed to learn and as it is unfamiliar, seems âwrongâ.
I am 59 and raising our 7 year old granddaughter who is in 1st grade. I am having a terrible time with core math. I know the answer but then you have to explain how you got the answerđ
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Uh they increased the math in the last few years it is absolutely ridiculous
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Common Core is why we decided to homeschool our daughter. After starting 5th grade, her grades began to drop drastically. Started looking into her school abs homeworkâŚcome to find out, the TEACHER wasnât even teaching it right!! Requested a transfer to a different teacher and was denied. Asked for tutoring and was given a list of very expensive programs, and we took lessons online trying to help. Common Core needs to be taken out of EVERY school in the country!!
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There are websites you can look for on line to help you with this math.Its what we did when mine were in school.It will give u step by step.It HelpsâŚJust gotta look for them,I canât remember where we used to go.
My son in the 2nd grade, and some of that stuff is ridiculous. Heâs struggling with it, he does the best he can and I help him as much as possible.
Wish I vpild help my son he fails mths all the time todayâs maths is creek to me
This new step by step math is a pain in the ass⌠itâs stressâs us all out 
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1+1=2 to me it should be that simple but noooo i am not able to help my child either
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I look up what theyâre learning that way I can understand the homework that way I can help them.
I teach my daughter who is in the 4th grade math the way we learned and then I read her book and teach her the way they learn she uses my way to check the common core way
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My son is almost 7 and his math sometimes is hard ⌠thankfully he is better at his math but is behind in his reading a writing.
Common Core math is absolutely ridiculous!!
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Parents need to go back to school if they want to help them.
20 years later I have learned that it is the same thing, and I can show them how to do it the normal way!
Kids are doing stuff now that we didnât have to do till middle or high school
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