should an 8th grader be able to solve this

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<p>gouf78 - funny :-)</p>

<p>I’m not trying to be a helicopter parent. I don’t even go to my boyfriend’s house when he has his daughter on weekends anymore, because being around this girl (who I’ve known for 4 years), is like watching a slow motion train wreck.</p>

<p>When my son was visiting over the holidays, we went over to her house. My son is the first person she has ever met that graduated from college - there are no college graduates in her very extended family. I wanted her to meet someone who was raised by a single parent (me, son has never met his father, nor did I ever get $ from him) and has (so far) had personal success in life. </p>

<p>My son asked her what type of books she likes to read. She said ‘none’. I don’t like to read. She could not name a book she has had to read for school. Apparently this school doesn’t have any required reading or much writing either.</p>

<p>Every minute of her time that is not spent at school, she is online or on her phone with a boy in Chicago. And her mother and father (who were never married or lived together) let her do this.</p>

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<p>What does your boyfriend think? This is his child.</p>

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<p>You can’t do math easily if you can’t manipulate the numbers easily. That means rote memorization of addition, subtraction and multiplication tables. Which should have been accomplished by third grade. My D got to 4th grade division and was having trouble. I found she just didn’t know her multiplication as well as she should have. She HATED flash cards (and mom doing the drillling!) but in three days she could spit out an answer fast. All of the frustration of homework was gone since she was able to do it fast and easily. And yes, 8th grade algebra for her.</p>