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re: (Not Common Core)-- Why are they teaching math this way?
Posted on 2/9/15 at 12:29 pm to Bleeding purple
Posted on 2/9/15 at 12:29 pm to Bleeding purple
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It is also interesting that his sight words and spelling words are a max of 5 letters currently, and subtrahend is "a doubles fact" longer.
Is there supposed to be a point to this statement besides the joke? Or is every word your kid uses besides subtrahend 5 letters or less?
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Posted on 2/9/15 at 12:43 pm to LNCHBOX
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Is there supposed to be a point to this statement besides the joke? Or is every word your kid uses besides subtrahend 5 letters or less?
The point is the word was not taught as a vocabulary word. The meaning was not taught in class. He is not expected to read words for his grade level greater than 5 letters currently. So if you teach kid "6 minus 4 is 2" or "take 4 away from 6 and you have 2" or "what number do you take from 4 to get 2?" why put subtrahend on the test?
And although I understand those saying it never hurts to teach proper terminology, what is improper about number, value, digit, integer, whole number, etc?
When will you ever need to solve for subtrahend outside of the first 3 grade levels? You will solve for one of the above terms even if the process calls for subtraction.
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