I Don't Understand My 5 Year Olds Homework!!!

[threebikesmcginty]

She was asked to note any labels that she saw on the way to school.
Clothes labels, labels on tins or bottles, etc.? No, a label is a roadsign, since when?!!

Maths next. 30 + 7 = ?, Ok so far but then it asks to separate the 10s and the units. The answer to this was 30 for the tens and 7 for the units, I'd have thought the tens was 3, surely 30 tens is 300....

Maybe I'm just thick!

 

[rich p]

She was asked to note any labels that she saw on the way to school.
Clothes labels, labels on tins or bottles, etc.? No, a label is a roadsign, since when?!!

Maths next. 30 + 7 = ?, Ok so far but then it asks to separate the 10s and the units. The answer to this was 30 for the tens and 7 for the units, I'd have thought the tens was 3, surely 30 tens is 300....

Maybe I'm just thick!

I can kind of see both points of view on the maths one but you're clearly wrong on the first question.
My underpants have a label on the back saying 'No Entry'

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i've had dd with questions that are impossible to answer, unless you can work out what mistake was made by the teacher.

the most recent one was a french crossword where punctuation (?') was inconsistently used. once we worked that out, it was ok, seeing as she knew all the words anyway.

 

[Globalti]

So standards are improving then? That's a relief, I thought the government were lying.

 

[summerdays]

I can remember trying to help mine with maths ... and they do addition, subtraction and multiplication totally differently to me. And I didn't want to confuse them by showing them my method - it made it very hard to try and help them.

 

[XmisterIS]

Maths next. 30 + 7 = ?, Ok so far but then it asks to separate the 10s and the units.

Ambiguous question. I would complain and take it to a tribunal if necessary!

 

[Wigsie]

My son has to do all multiplication and division using remainders?? wtf? the tens hundreds unit system does seem to hve changed too (30 being 30 tens not 3 units of 10).

Last term we both struggled on some homework for ages where he had to find lines of symmetry, specific angles etc within sets of shapes, but the teacher had asked the kids to highlight 1 more line or specific angle than was actually on each shape. !

I did give his teacher some abuse on parents eveening for that! had me stumped for hours!

 

[Blackandblue]

I can kind of see both points of view on the maths one but you're clearly wrong on the first question.
My underpants have a label on the back saying 'No Entry'

Oh god, I'm going to struggle then. My kid has just started school and just don't get how you derive 30 tens from 30. My narrow mind only sees 3 tens in 30.

 

[ChrisKH]

My boys school lays on lessons for the parents to teach them how they teach maths as it is not the same as when we were at school (e.g. the units issue). My wife regularly comes to me and says she does not understand the homework. It's not her ability but conceptual understanding of what is required. Not that she is doing the homework I would add, but the kids need direction once they get home.

 

[ChrisKH]

So standards are improving then? That's a relief, I thought the government were lying.

I'm no supporter of the current "everyone has an A" GCSE's but my two children are far more able than I was at their age. Perhaps I'm just thick and they have their mother's brains.

 

[marinyork]

Sounds very much like people complaining about "modern maths" in the 1960s.

Anyway mistakes are a tradition and go as high up as you can get.

 

[swee'pea99]

The maths facing my daughter at 13 is streets ahead of anything I ever had to cope with at that age...just in a different league.

 

[CharlieB]

It's a bit like the strange phonetic alphabet taught in some schools today, 'ber' for B, 'sir' for S, etc.
With the strange and wonderful quirks that make the English language what it is, how can you tell youngsters an S is a 'sir' and then expect them to spell a word like 'circle' correctly?

 

[swee'pea99]

Get them to spell 'Borough' - that's always good for a larf

 

[ChrisKH]

It's a bit like the strange phonetic alphabet taught in some schools today, 'ber' for B, 'sir' for S, etc.
With the strange and wonderful quirks that make the English language what it is, how can you tell youngsters an S is a 'sir' and then expect them to spell a word like 'circle' correctly?

They very quickly adapt to conventional "Ess" and "Bee" after a couple of years. It never did my two any harm and we use both phonetic and conventional alphabet for spelling at home as needs be. No pun intended.

Anyway spelling circle would be easy - "curr (curly cat curr, not kicking kurr), irr, rerr, curr, lerr, eah".