"Done With Third Grade Math"

I have a homeschool friend who has been sharing photographs of her family's day.  The most recent one was humorously called "X is done with 3rd grade math" and it is a picture of a little girl standing and grinning with a spatula over a barbecue where her 3rd grade math book is on fire.

So many times as an unschooler I think I'm actually losing my sense of humor.  I had a visceral reaction to this.  Third grade math is basically multiplication.  That's pretty much it.  Since moving to unschooling, My kids do arithmetic and other math when it comes up.  My oldest eventually taught herself trig and is currently taking Calculus for Economics in college.  We'll see what happens to the rest of the kids, mathematically.  Right now they either play with math (thinking about interesting aspects of math) or use math when they need it to calculate things they want to know.

I'm so glad to have stumbled into the unschooling way of life, where third graders (just kidding--there are no grades) aren't burdened by a textbook full of things they want to burn when they finish.