Why should I continue having my child learn the Ways That Work method rather than let him/her go back to counting?

Most children learn to count by the time they are 5 years old. It is important for children to learn to count and understand the relationship between numbers and quantities. When kids begin learning the operations of addition and subtraction they must learn the concept of putting numbers together and taking them apart. If they continue to count they will be able to get the correct answer but all they will be doing is counting, something they probably learned to do when they were 4 or 5 years old. They will not be learning the concept of addition and subtraction. If you have seen your child start using his/her brain rather than his/her fingers to get the answers, stay with the Add to Subtract program. You will see that your child will be one of the few students in his/her class who is not counting and has truly mastered the facts.