<p>We REVEL in summer slide! There will be NO math homework. We're going on a family vacation to Europe (mostly to eat) and then sons are going on a fly-fishing trip with grandpa, then we will be as lazy as possible.</p>
<p>I will force my kid to work at Dick's Drive In where all bills are calculated in the head of the counterperson. No pencils or automatic registers allowed.</p>
<p>Are fingers okay? :)</p>
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<p>Amen to that, Weenie! That was always our approach, and it worked just fine.</p>
<p>eww barrons
( about the hamburgers- but I do like the fries greasy as they are)
we used to stop off at Dicks for hamburgers after a morning spent at the Art Museum ( probably the Frye cause its free)
my dad was thrifty
My favorite greasy meal though is a corn dog at little coneys down by shilsole marina- if you breathe in enough salt air, the saturated fat just blows away.</p>
<p>But actually we have had bad results following the teachers recommendation of no summer school- so that is why we are now playing catch up because in critical areas there are huge gaps.</p>
<p>ek,</p>
<p>All 3 of our kids did Kumon and hated it most of the time. And all 3 of them have thanked me several times for keeping it up and not caving in to the whining (and the whining got bad). I actually think it was one of the best outside activities I started for them. It really paid off as they each have a lot of confidence in their math abilities. And it helped them survive the school district's "pretend math" classes.</p>
<p>My oldest two are doing the classic "you want fries with that" minimum wage "why you should stay in school" jobs to earn money for college expenses. I'm sure they will learn plenty about the human condition, abnormal psychology, and putting on a good face. One of my younger two is volunteering at the Children's Museum, attending some local sports camps (for minimum skills, nothing major) and spending the rest of the time fishing, biking, and hanging out. My daughter has elected a residential debate camp and trip to visit her Aunt in Miami. Otherwise she will be volunteering at the Museum or probably napping. It is my goal not to create an ozone action day just on my taxi driving alone. :)</p>
<p>Even if the JHU study is valid, we are talking about computation skills here and are not very important. I suspect a quick review would be enough to get a student back up to speed.</p>
<p>The important lessons in math are not the computation skills but learning how to reason mathematically. Do you remember any of those geometry proofs you learned many years ago? Probably not. But I would wager that the reasoning needed to do those proofs is still with you.</p>
<p>Dont sweat it!</p>