As we pulled out math today, Gabe started grumbling. So I decided that it might be a good idea to find out if he just didn't want to do math or if there was some other reason that we could find a solution for. Turns out that he's bored. I have been aware that he can pretty much do his math without help and I haven't had to actually teach him a lesson for awhile but I've been reluctant to just jump ahead. So I found an assessment about 25 lesson ahead of where we are and worked through it with him today. The examples above are just two of the questions. We worked out the problems on the white board so that I could see that he actually understood the math. The only part of the assessment I knew he wouldn't be able to answer from memory were the multiplying by seven equations. However, I do know that he understands multiplication and he knows how to find the answer. Those particular facts just haven't been memorized yet. So, following today's lesson we agreed to jump ahead in his math book (from lesson 35 to lesson 60) but that we'll need to focus on memorizing the times 7 facts.
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