[drew1]

Charlie,
Good that you're caring about your kid's learning. My wife is a teacher & from what she tells me, a lot of folks don't.

I don't have much education myself. Because I've seen my ignorance is why I think education is important. I was lucky in that my folks made me learn to read & write, count, ad & subtract, & do my multiplication tables. At least I have the foundation.

Others have pointed out computer programs that work. I think this is good. My youngest daughter wasn't ctching on to arithmatic too well. The old Commodore computer was easy to program so I made Rainbow Brite & Starlite ride up & change screen colors when she did an addtion, subtraction, multiplication , or division right. Murky & Lurky came down & changed it gray when she was wrong.

I think arithmatic is our best way of seeing how God made things. The bad education part is all of those scary names like algebra, gemometry, calculus, etc. I wonder if all of our schools aren't teaching it backwards. It seems to me kind of what is called curve fitting should be introduced earlier than quadatic equations, matrixwes, etc.