Today has been interesting. Yesterday, I gave Q the day "off." He doesn't do more than an hour of "official" school work each day, but I do have him read some and he enjoys a book we have called "Mind Benders" where he can solve logic puzzles. I want him to know his multiplication tables and his basic division facts. I took much of last year thinking about what I, as his mom (and a teacher), want and think he should know, but to be honest, it's not a lot. Just the bare basics. Today, I kept thinking, "Make sure that at least he does some math today..." He has been playing on Roblox.com for a while. He loves that. He's very creative and he is learning math by converting "tix" to "Robucks." They each deal with sets of 500 and 1,000 so he has to multiply large numbers. Yesterday he asked me what 1,040 times 62 was. We worked it out on paper. He "does" math every day. Why do I keep thinking that he has to learn a certain amount/concept in math at a certain age? I mean, realistically, I don't believe he does, but there is this fear of "what if?" that I can't shake. What if he is 15 and doesn't know how to multiply multi-digit numbers? What if someone asks him in the next few months what 78 divided by 3 is and he doesn't immediately know? Q is an excellent reader and he has great comprehension. If he needs to find information, he can find it and understand it easily. I need to figure out why I get so hung up on "he must do some school work every day."
SO, guess how much formal school work he did today? NONE! :-)
(it feels kind of good!)
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