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I'm in the same situation as you, my daughter is 9, good grades. I started to discuss this when she started saying she "hates math", which surprised me. At the time it turned out it was because the teacher would remove all breaks and replace them with math for weeks (that's the kind of thing they do in Taiwan where I live - lol)!

Lately we had the conversation again, and the same pattern arose, math is all exams and very few explanations, so it looks like a random, endless following of tests and numbers. I made my point again that the system may be more the problem than math itself.

At this age kids aren't really able to see the big picture yet, and they are facing sometimes a rather unnatural way to teach things, so I believe it makes a lot of sense to step in their shoes and give a listening ear, rather than push our own worries to them haha.

I'm currently learning linux and writing scripts/vibe coding, when I reach a milestone like an automation that works or a project that finishes, she can run the raycast confettis and I explain why this job was great and important