Homework

It is a humbling experience when I cant figure out how to do my kids homework.  I don't know if any of you have this experience but some days my girls come to me and ask for help with their homework.  I will sit down and look at the problems and scratch my head because I cant figure out how the teacher wants it answered.  I know how I would do the problem but that isn't always what the teacher is looking for.  I remember that when Avery was in the second grade they changed the math teaching method.  The teachers had to attend a class to learn how to teach this new method.  Now maybe it is just me but if the teachers have to learn how to teach the "new and improved" method and they don't even get it, perhaps just perhaps it is a terrible method.  Just a thought.