Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Almost useless

My oldest child asked me yesterday to help him with his math homework. I go over to the book to look at it. This is what it was:

27 divided by 3 squared is greaterthan/less than/equal to 27 divided by square root of 9

Luckily I remember square roots and ask the questions necessary for him to be able to figure out this problem.

I look at my husband with eyes of disbelief afterwards. He's almost laughing because he knows, as do I, that pretty soon I will be useless with math homework for him. What's he going to do then? Wait for Dad to come home, that's what.

When did third graders start doing square roots?

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