Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Elementary School-Aged Kids
Reply to "Why is everything so mediocre around me?(Warning: long rambling post)"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to know what good private school are teaching in 1st grade math. My guess is multiplication and starting to work with variables (X). [/quote] I cannot tell if this is a joke. I think it's second grade for basic multiplication at privates. But they do "blanks" for variables in 1st, sort of. Our public district doesn't start multiplication until 3rd. In 2nd they top out at borrowing and carrying ("regrouping") with 2 digits...which is insanely slow. Legitimate variables are second half of 4th grade advanced math, which means regular 5th grade.[/quote] I am the PP you are responding to. Why would I be joking. I worked in a 2nd grade classroom several years ago and they were working on multiplication through arrays. This was public school, not a top public or private. I'm not sure what you mean by legitimate variables. My son completed testing for 1st grade math enrichment outside of school and the entrance quiz included X and Y. Of course, they aren't doing algebra. But they expected him to know "Joe has X apples and Mary has Y bananas. Show an equation that shows the total pieces of fruit they have."[/quote] Nowadays, common core and Virginia have multiplication as a third grade skill. Before common core, some schools started multiplication in second grade but now that is very rare.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics