Hi, My daughter started french school in CM1 and already knew how to do long multiplication from the UK. However although she was getting all the answers correct, her work was being marked as wrong because her method was differant to what was being taught in the school here. In CM2 now she is being taught how to do long multiplication (the modern way apparently) the same as what she knew originally from the UK!........Lucky girl, she also has to teach the rest of the class as well, because now they're confused! I asked the teacher this year why my daughter needs to be confused yet again. Apparently its because some tutors will only recognise the old way as being the right way, but yet the system is changing so the students will need to know both ways. Does anyone else have similar knowledge of this, or equally confused children?