Math

My least favorite part of homeschooling is math.  And I know it's likely to not ever get easier as they get older and the work gets harder.  Every math class I remember from school had more than half of students frustrated and confused. I'm not completely satisfied with our math curriculum but at the same time I'm afraid to switch to something else.  Bella does just fine with it, but John leaves me wanting to bang my head on the wall.  I swear half the time he's simply playing dumb on purpose, and the other times it's the way things are worded that messes it up for him.  So I've been busy researching different math options for next year.

This weekend we went to the bookstore and got some little math workbooks for the kids.  John did 20 pages in his subtraction book yesterday, voluntarily.  He was actually enjoying himself.  And he got all the problems right.  Bella did 30 pages.  Definitely money well spent.  They chose math over TV last night.