I am glad you mentioned this bc I am awful at math and I'm also old enough that I didn't learn math the way it's taught now, so when my kids need help I am not very good at it. Fortunately, they are both math whizzes so it's not often they ask me for help.With options like Photomath, cheating is easy if math is just worksheets. Kids just take a photo w/their phone and the program solves it step by step. Photomath is just one of many options.
In the past years when I've pulled them out, it has never been a problem. Either the teachers say have fun, and don't really assign anything, or they will send home some math stuff or have them check Schoology on their Ipads. They have never given them zeros for not being there. But this year my oldest is in 6th so he has multiple teachers and I wasn't sure how to approach that. Also different this year is that my youngest broke his leg in December and was home the 2 weeks before xmas break because the cast was to his butt and I could not expect the school to deal with that until he figured out how to use a walker and get himself to the restroom and the worst of the pain was past. They did send home some school work for him then. And while I was talking to the principal about him returning to school after break, I brought up these trips. I didn't really ask permission, just said by the way, he'll also be gone these days, but I will make sure he gets his work done. The prinicipal was fine with it, but thats the elementary school. Honestly, I'd never plan for my kid to miss so much school, and they rarely ever miss more than a day or 2 thru the year for illness. But this year just seems to be a mess, and our family is dealing with some personal stuff, so this is a year for making memories and doing all the things.