During my sabbatical the kids have picked up monopoly. Part of the reason we started playing was because I thought it would interest them in math. Interestingly, Ethan's math skills have really picked up and he is able to quickly add up large numbers in order to dish out the necessary payments (or help his younger brother pay up) but he isn't necessarily that fast at doing the traditional math addition with carrying numbers etc on paper. I wondered if anyone else is having that experience where their child is good at math or something else intuitively or in their head, but they aren't really into the normal approach that we learn in school.
It kind of goes along with the whole idea we get from school (it's not taught directly, but we still learn it) that you can't learn anything unless someone teaches you how. Why not just learn how to add in your head rather than having a teacher show you an approach that requires a paper? Just looking for your thoughts.
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