I do not understand my child’s math homework. What do I do?

Stop trying to understand it and change jobs. Ask your child to teach you the method, read the worked example at the top of the page together, and hunt for the sentence where it stopped making sense. If you are both stuck, write the question down and email the teacher in front of your child. Every one of those is useful and none of them requires you to know the maths.

Can I just teach my child the way I learned it?

Afterwards, not instead. Taught as a rescue, your method leaves your child holding two procedures with no idea why either works, and being marked down for the one you gave them. Taught after the homework is handed in, as "here is the fast way, now that you know why it works", it is a gift. The order is the whole difference.

Should I use ChatGPT to help with math homework I do not understand?

For yourself, after bedtime, to understand a method — reasonable. Pointed at the worksheet with your child watching — this is the worst case, because neither of you can check it. The Bastani study found an unguarded AI assistant raised practice scores and then lowered later unaided exam scores by about 17 percent, while a hint-only version removed the harm. The distinction that mattered was hints versus answers.

How do I know whether to email the teacher?

Email when you can name the stuck point, or when the two of you have spent twenty minutes and are no further. Both are good emails and teachers generally want them — a located gap takes a teacher thirty seconds to close. The email that does not work is "my child does not understand maths"; the one that does is "she is fine until the second step of question three, where the method asks her to split the number."

看不懂孩子的数学作业时，家长该做什么

你不需要去学那套新方法。四个完全不需要你会数学的做法、数轴和点阵到底在干什么，以及为什么 AI 在这里是最诱人的错误答案。

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孩子说「我数学不行」的时候 — 「我数学不行」是一个循环，而不是一个水平——其中最清楚的一项发现，说的是辅导作业的那个家长，而不是孩子。这周可以改的五件事。
真的记得住的乘法表 — 回忆、分散、打乱——三个几乎做完全部工作的发现，每天五分钟。另附四种练习方式对照证据的诚实评分。