Does any middle school know multiplication table

[Anonymous]

Does any middle school know multiplication table?
i KEEP seeing post on TikTok saying kids can't mutilpication because they were in 1st grade when school closed down. They can't even read or anything. How are they getting by?

[Anonymous]

My DD tutors middle school kids and they get mad they can't use their calculator to divide 16 by 2, etc. She won't let them. It seems many kids had not been told that before by parents or teachers.

[Anonymous]

You should just stop wasting time on tiktok.

[Anonymous]

My 8th and 5th graders knows their multiplication tables.
The 8th grader didn't know them when they were entering 6th and we did drills over the summer.

They really stressed the importance of having them memorized at the middle school open house.

[Anonymous]

I teach 6th grade Language Arts. Their reading comprehension is trash, and their spelling is just as bad. It's the worst I've seen since I started teaching 13 years ago. My students were in 1st grade when the pandemic hit during the 2019-2020 school year.

Their spelling is so bad that auto-correct can't even figure out what word they want. I think a lot of it is due to their use of a lingo and acronyms when texting. They've become so engrained in their brains that they forget and use them during formal writings. The number of times I've had to circle the words "inuff" and "xcept" used in essays is wild. They don't seem to use the 'in' or 'en' on those words when texting, so they've forgotten how to spell them properly (or never learned). One student submitted a book report where he used "nvisable" over and over and over. I asked him to spell invisible for me and he thought it was spelled that way. We cover 350 new spelling words each year and very few of my students are going to be promoted actually knowing these words. It makes me sad.

And if you think the public's lack of being able to use the correct who's/whose and they're/their/there is maddening, wait until you get to see Gen Alpha's use of mint for meant.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we taught it at home in es.

[Anonymous]

tiktok seems like not a great source to get education data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach 6th grade Language Arts. Their reading comprehension is trash, and their spelling is just as bad. It's the worst I've seen since I started teaching 13 years ago. My students were in 1st grade when the pandemic hit during the 2019-2020 school year.

Their spelling is so bad that auto-correct can't even figure out what word they want. I think a lot of it is due to their use of a lingo and acronyms when texting. They've become so engrained in their brains that they forget and use them during formal writings. The number of times I've had to circle the words "inuff" and "xcept" used in essays is wild. They don't seem to use the 'in' or 'en' on those words when texting, so they've forgotten how to spell them properly (or never learned). One student submitted a book report where he used "nvisable" over and over and over. I asked him to spell invisible for me and he thought it was spelled that way. We cover 350 new spelling words each year and very few of my students are going to be promoted actually knowing these words. It makes me sad.

And if you think the public's lack of being able to use the correct who's/whose and they're/their/there is maddening, wait until you get to see Gen Alpha's use of mint for meant.

Text speak is definitely part of the problem. The spelling isn’t corrected and enforced enough so that can’t switch between the two. This has been showing up at the university level for years now.

[Anonymous]

My 4th grader knows his and I didn't teach him

[Anonymous]

My 7th grader knows her multiplication facts. Her 5th grade teacher really focused on this and they spent lots of time doing memorization drills (in addition to their normal math practice).

However, I agree that my 7th grader is terrible at spelling and writing. They also worked on this throughout elementary school and it just never clicked. She was in first grade when covid hit.

[Anonymous]

My 7th grader definitely knows his multiplication facts, but we worked hard on them at home in 4th-5th grade. His spelling was also atrocious a couple of years ago and that has gotten much better.

My current 4th grader doesn’t know all of the multiplication facts yet but it seems like they are still working on it in school.

[Anonymous]

Every 4th grader should be 100% fluent in multiplication facts by year's end. Period.

[Anonymous]

Of course they do. If they don;t you failed as a parent in terms of educating your kids.

Absolutely by 4th grade they should know this and if your school did not teach it and you didn't either you failed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD tutors middle school kids and they get mad they can't use their calculator to divide 16 by 2, etc. She won't let them. It seems many kids had not been told that before by parents or teachers.

My 8th grader got a new teacher this year that won’t let them use calculators in class, unlike previous teachers. Her computation skills have jumped in the last few weeks. I love the new teacher!