On Monday afternoons I tutor a fifth grader at South Wayne Elementary School. He's a great kid and I really enjoy working with him, usually. Today wasn't one of our most fun days. Don't get me wrong, he was as hard working and well behaved as ever, but his teacher had sent two work sheets on least common denominators. You remember fractions, don't you? Always a fun part of elementary school math. I remember my husband trying to convince our then ten year old daughter that "Fractions are our friends." She wasn't buying it. Today I first had to remind myself that the denominator is on the bottom, then we got to work. Not at all surprisingly, his teacher teaches a different approach than I learned as a child, but we figured it out, sort of. We will work on it more next week. Unless they have moved on to something else by then. Trying to keep up with a 5th grader is rather humbling.
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