Reading Decimals

My 7yo son hit his first road block being unable to understand a math concept. The great thing is we'll just skip it and keep right on truckin'! That's one of the great aspects of our new math curriculum, Math on the Level, which I can't praise enough.

He did awesome with fractions last month and can add and subtract them, draw figures to represent them, compare them, and change improper fractions into mixed numbers. I figured it'd be an easy progression to toss in a decimal. Not so, but I am so glad to be done with pizza analogies! We also just worked on place value so I really thought this would be a simple next step, but I guess this is this string of concepts' stopping point for now. We'll pick it up again in a month or two and see if he's able to understand it then.

So, instead we're moving on to skip counting 3s and 4s and memorizing facts with 2s. We'll play with manipulatives to make sure he completely understands why we multiply and what it represents. Eventually we'll add in fact drills. The point is to make math fun without stress and one day when we come back to reading decimals, his love of math with still be in tact.