Double dutch exactly, because of my own maths and English ( and not making excuses but going to a welsh primary school, everything but English lessons welsh, English speaking home and a English high school, it was all very confusing for me, and since them been diagnosed with bof, which fucks your brain function up all on its own lol. I made my kids work very hard from babies with maths and English.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 why not just subtract normally???
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
I agree though the basics are not enough these days, but I also think getting into jobs is also harder. Exams are a memory game, and sorry not sorry, but they don’t define you as a person, they tick a box. Please no hate
BPD not Bof,
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