Looking for some guidance please.
My son has started asking me sums, very simple sums adding and subtracting. Hes 6 years old and this is a new thing over the past 3-4 weeks. He wants to ask me the sums, he doesn’t want me to ask him sums. There is no issues with the adding.
He will say well done when I get one correctly but he gets frustrated with me for not answering them the way he thinks is correct.
An example being, He will say “10 takeaway what to leave 2” I say 8, he says no it’s 6 and 2. He says this with lots of sums. Other times he will say the answer is 5 and 3. So it’s not always the same answer.
He sometimes giggles & other times he will scream from frustration when I say what he thinks is the wrong answer.
I have tried counters, using my fingers to show him but he will giggle and say no no no or scream at me. In a way he’s correct so to save upset I’ve started saying oh okay and repeating the answer he corrects me with so we can move onto the next sum.
When I pick up my phone he will come over and looking at the clock, just say it’s 12:36pm he will say it’s 36 and 12.
Im not trying to make a big deal out of this but I was wondering if anyone can give me an insight into why he’s seeing numbers in this way and if there is anything i should be doing differently.
