Math. The subject right above learning about the Greek God's on my list of least favorite classes back when I was in school. I mean I can add, subtract, multiply, divide and I love Algebra. Geometry was a different story and thank God my teacher lived across the street so I passed the class when I should have received a F-! It is the questions like:
Sarah had 35 purple marbles and she gave Timmy 9 of them. Timmy added the 9 marbles to his collection of 11. How tall is Sarah?
As if I want to figure that out!
The way they teach Math these days is enough to make your head explode.....twice! And to come home after a hard day at work and have to help your child with Math like that is enough to make it explode 45 times! Kayk's Math teacher assigns homework every night except for Wednesday nights. Boy, do I LOVE Wednesday nights. So with the new way Math is taught mixed in with the fact that my husband and I have been out of school for over 20 years we have to take a crash course on the Internet in order to be able to assist our children with their Math homework. Oh and don't let me leave out that in efforts to save the school district money they only buy a classroom supply of Math books so the students can't bring them home with them. So all we have is the worksheet and whatever we may stumble upon on the Internet in order to help them. You gotta love it!
So last night we had a complicated Math problem that we were trying to assist Kayk with. It made no sense to me or my husband. Kayk is a straight A student so I know she pays attention in class but she couldn't figure it out either. And the Internet was no help. Uuuuugh! I ended up flipping out and told Kayk I couldn't wait for Curriculum night this week because I was going to have a little chat with her teacher. It was nearing 7:00PM and I had not even started dinner yet and we had been working on this same problem for nearly an hour and a half. Kayk told me she didn't want me to say anything to her teacher. I told her that all I was going to tell her Math teacher was that each evening she needed to come to our house to cook dinner and do my chores so that I could assist with Math homework and that I would gladly give her every Wednesday night off. I think that is a fair enough trade off.
We even tried contacting some of Kayk's friends from school and no one could get the problem. I think there may have been a typo on the worksheet. I don't usually allow Kayk to give up on her homework but in the case I told her to do just that. There was no way this problem could be worked out.
After all of that I finally made dinner and we ate. Afterwards my husband put his arms around me and told me he appreciated all of my efforts and what a wonderful job I do. Awwwwwwww! He then told me he would take me to Yankee Candle to get my Pumpkin Pie candle. Awwwwww again! I get a Pumpkin Pie candle each fall and I had been mentioning to him that I needed to get up there to get it. I had a coupon for a buy one get one free (I have frequent flyer miles at Yankee) so I also got my Christmas candle as well. This year I got Hollyberry - smells yummy!
So tonight is Tuesday night so you know what that means? Yup....I will be doing all of that Math doo doo again! Lucky me!
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