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I feel there's several discussions about how schools teach reading. But I haven't seen many discussions on math. I'd love to hear what other schools are doing for math, methods to teach it and where our soon to be second graders have finished math for the year.

1. What sort of math did your child master by the end of the year? Especially what did the school teach? (If your kid is a math genius and can do trigonometry that's great, but what was covered at school?)

2. How are they teaching math?

I'll post my answers below

I hate how short the power lines are! I'm trying to bury a wireless transmitter in the floor, but that means it's one block too far away from the light on the ceiling. Also frustrated building some multiple floor houses and how to get power to the second floor. Either you have visual transmitters, or need to build walls/floors 3 blocks deep to hide them.

Even just trying to set up a string of street lights with power lines is tedious given how frequently you need to put down a transmitter. I feel like the transmitters need to have twice the range

Karate, Taekwondo, Jiu Jitsu? I've seen this and others advertised in my area. Looking into one of these for my 6 nearly 7 year old.

He's not that coordinated, already in PT for gross motor skills, doesn't want to do team spots. Would likely do better in a solo activity vs anything with a competition. On the spectrum.

Do all martial arts including sparing with partners or do some focus on just learning the skills? I'm slightly worried about teaching/encouraging fighting of any kind. We tried ninja classes but he didn't like it. Any of these more calm focused vs a crazy overstimulating class with a bunch of kids running around?

And I assume it depends on the gym, but I thought I'd try to narrow down which martial art before looking for options

I have plenty of books explaining how my child came to be (donor sperm and IVF) but I realized I haven't taught the whole natural conception aspect. It came up when we were talking about babies and kid asked about the donor. I hastly told him not all families use a donor but it reminded me that maybe I should explain that a bit better.

Any good books that explain it all, and ideally are a bit inclusive? I'd love a book that included adoption, donor material, but that might be a pipedream.

I want to avoid books that state "ALL babies start when a mommy and daddy love each other...."

What books do you like? Kid is 6 for reference

It always sneaks up on me. For Christmas I do gift cards and a handmade card from kid. Drawing a blank for teacher appreciation week. Kid also has a para and special Ed helper and various other helpers, so having kid draw a picture for teachers turns into a marathon session of art time with kid getting bored. Or we miss some of them