[fifeboy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

using whole number, fractions, converting decimal values into fractions and percentages and vice versa. That would be very 'basic' math you need everyday. ratios and unit cost are essential skills as well. These are all problems we are faced with in daily life.

I like your answer better. On the making change thing. Very few people actually do the subtraction. Most just add up from the price to the amount presented. Like in $16.32 from 20. That's 33, 34, 35, 40, 50,75, 17, 18, 19, 20. It's a skill that is taught, not in school but in the workplace. Anyway, if you want to know what is being taught, cheque out your Provincial Math Curriculum. Here is the one for Saskatchewan. http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/branches/curr/evergreen/math.shtml

I doubt if other provinces have one that is much different. If you don't like what is being taught, or how it's being taught, quite crying about it on the net and write a letter to your local friendly Minister of Ed.

[fifeboy]

peck420 peck420:

Fife,

I completely understand that the curriculum applies to all schools that recieve funding, what I don't understand is a teacher and a principal getting so upset about me teaching my own children some things.

If they don't want to help my kids understand, I will, and I don't see a problem with that.

Well, if that's actually the way it came down I would have gone above their heads. Director of Ed. would be the man. Most math teachers I have talked to, including myself, were always looking for parental help.

[peck420]

I spoke with my pocket book (private school that recieves government funding) by removing my children immediately and cancelling all of the future payments to them.

But, I may just write a letter to the Director of Ed.

It was kind of unreal, I put my children into that particular private school at the behest of my family (parents) due to how much 'better' my childrens lives would be because of it. I found the staff confrontational and arrogant.

My children are now in a public school and the staff is exceedingly helpful and determined....

Definitely not what I was expecting.