The math curriculum and school curriculum in general is getting increasingly jam packed with more and more content. Teachers are struggling to keep up with all they have to teach and each year there is more and more added.

IT is supposed to make thing easier, but it looks like it has complicated matters somewhat. Try to get kids to do a computer task without Facebook being open in the background or maybe do a math task on computer because there is a new program which will teach them better, but they need to learn the new program first before they can do the math. Then there is no time to do the math because all their time was spent on the new program (and Facebook).

Well, Facebook isn’t the problem. If the kids could do their work easily then they would do it. Kids like to feel success. The problem is the fact that the kids aren’t being taught properly because teachers have to keep pushing through the curriculum because they are expected to cover a certain amount of work by the end of the year.

Parents get frustrated for their kids because many feel that they can’t help their kids.

Well you can.Start revising some of the work with them. Learn the math again. If you didn’t get it when you were in school you will probably get it now (you have a different motivation). If you say to you kids I didn’t get it either when I was in school, your kids will think  “if its ok for my parents to not learn it, it will be ok for me too.” But the negative feeling of failure won’t go away and they will creep into other areas of life.

So get off your bum and learn the multiplication tables. Buy some books that have table races and race your kids. They will enjoy the time you’re spending with them also.

Let me know what you think.