I spent two hours helping my daughter with her math last night. What used to be in our book, on notes, and worked out on paper is now done over 6 different tabs on the laptop. I do not understand what “show your work” means on a touchscreen laptop with calculations down on the laptop calculator. Helping your child with their math homework is challenging. This sucked.
I struggled to get my daughter to work out the problem on paper and break it down to pieces she understood. Laptops are great but so are chalkboards, whiteboards, and paper.
Tonight we will try again with formulas printed out and laid out in front of us, problems broken down on paper with pen and labels, and calculations done on a stand-alone Texas Instruments calculator.