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re: (Not Common Core)-- Why are they teaching math this way?
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:08 pm to GeauxTigerTM
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:08 pm to GeauxTigerTM
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Did you write that incorrectly earlier?
not going back to read thread but I have two sons one in first one in second grade. I don't believe I did but if I mixed the details, I apologize.
My first grader was expected to read subtrahend on an exam and is learning 5 letter spelling and vocab words.
My 2nd grader was asked to do "grouping" for simple subtraction and is still being tested on doubles plus one facts (although I did not re list those problems under the 2nd grade heading) despite being able to do the multiplication in his head as noted. He is at a 4.1 grade reading level currently and can easily read subtrahend, derivative, or even bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy but that does not mean he knows what those things are without first being taught their meaning.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:21 pm to Bleeding purple
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Bleeding purple
Makes sense.
Mine are further apart...7th and 2nd. I've yet to see the word subtrahend on any of his work, though the work he's being asked to do is what you described. I will say that if he came home with that and did not know the word (I sure as shite would not have known it if he had) I'd have looked it up and explained it to him and we'd have been done with it.
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