almost exactly the same here. I didn’t struggle this much with my elder 2, but the little ones work is like double Dutch to me. They are now teaching subtraction by adding numbers on and making a constant difference (or something along those lines) until you add enough on that you get to a round number, then you do the subtraction
![Exploding head :exploding_head: 🤯](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f92f.png)
![Exploding head :exploding_head: 🤯](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f92f.png)
why not just subtract normally???
![Face with tears of joy :joy: 😂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f602.png)
I was stressed, my daughter was stressed, till her sister took over and explained it. She understood it because they also covered it (along with normal subtraction). This was back at the begging of lockdown and my eldest has done almost all of the home schooling since (she is in the same year as Betsy so has no school work of her own to do)
There is a lot more to it than teach yourself the basics. The basics don’t cut it anymore it would seem
I also think teachers deserve massive massive pay rises