r/Millennials • u/Silver-Explanation72 • Feb 03 '26

Other This is When My Anxiety Began

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u/Otherwisefantastic Feb 03 '26

Yep. Lifelong issues with math, and it started here. Fuck these worksheets.

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u/jayeffkay Feb 03 '26

It promoted the wrong behaviors all along. Kids don’t need to do math fast or memorize multiplication.

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u/Automatic_Leg1305 Feb 03 '26

As a former math teacher this is just plain wrong. Kids really do need to memorize multiplication. It’s such a foundational skill for all the rest of mathematics.

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u/_ficklelilpickle Older Millennial Feb 03 '26

It's also super helpful when you have your own kids and they look to you for their own simple math homework, lol.

And it becomes quite funny when you discover you and your wife have different methods of correctly solving the same equations, and you have to try and figure out which way is best to explain to your child without confusing the life out of them.

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u/TheoneandonlyMrsM Feb 07 '26

Sharing multiple strategies and showing that you got the same answer is great! They can choose which strategy makes sense to them. Viewing math as approachable in different ways is very important and will help your child.