Dear Nancy and Rosine,

What I did was to rewrite the number puzzles, one set per page, in a spiral notebook. He is starting again from the very beginning, and we'll just continue through the summer with the number puzzles (we always do math games through the summer anyway).

I will definately have him use the hint of writing the equal sign in a different place for each row of numbers.

Thanks.

Kelly

I'm glad to read that you do math in the summer. We do this too and I find it helpful for keeping up my children's math skills. Sounds like you have everything set and ready to go.

Thanks for sharing with us what you plan on doing.

Sincerely, Rosine

We had a hard time getting through the puzzles until I realized he doesn't HAVE to figure them all out from scratch - I could not even do that. We give hints like the others suggest, we also switch off days - one day he plays teacher and gives me hints and the next day is my turn to give him hints. This helped us enjoy and appreciate them.