Kelley,

I can imagine how great those moments are. It really shows that she IS understanding.

After reading yours I wanted to share something that happened today.

I have a son in the Geometric Approach and he was multiplying a two digit number by a two digit number.....MENTALLY. Not because I asked him to....he just wanted to do it. And he got the right answer. When I asked him to tell me what he did it was even more complicated.

It was 44 x 45. He multiplied 44 by 20 since that was half of 40 in the 45...getting 880. Then he doubled that to get 1760. Then he multiplied 44x5 getting 220 and then added it to 1760 for a grand total of 1980.

Yes....I was confused...yet it made perfect sense to him and he did it almost as fast as I did on the calculator.

He's done RS from level B.....