Easy math

 I wish Math would be as easy for all of us as it's for Liam! He has a gift for numbers. I don't have the same "luck" with all the kids but he amazes me in many ways. Sometimes I teach his the "hardest" way just because I know he will get it. 

He was learning to do division on his level 4 workbook and I taught him what NOW I think it's the easier way, I'm not sure if I thought the same when I was his age. I told him he didn't need to write the product of the quotient and divisor to then subtract that from the dividend just think about the product in your mind and see how many more you need to get to the dividend and then write that in under it. and then bring the next number down and repeat the process. 

He learned fast and now that is the only way he does it. After a few more days when the book asked him to do some more division he showed me the quotient and reminder but no numbers under it!!!  So I needed to divide that to make sure it's the right answer... just to make sure hahaha

When he was still little, and I was reading my oldest daughter a math problem, she was still thinking and trying to solve it when he suddenly was telling us the answer. He had no paper or pencil and he could think all those numbers in his head. and now that he is 9 almost 10 he can do many math problems just in his mind. 

Here is the link to one of his assignments. Order of operations

So far, math has been one of his favorite subjects and he always works on his math workbook first . As all of us, we all have some subjects that we don't really enjoy or take too long to do it and not because of lack of understanding but for what we feel about one or the other. He doesn't enjoy as much language arts and is always trying to find distractions while we work on that subject.  

Another example of his mental reasoning fractions to mixed numbers