What are your 4th graders learning in math?

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is doing pre algebra

Everything is pre algebra until you get to algebra and then it’s just algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine is doing pre algebra

Everything is pre algebra until you get to algebra and then it’s just algebra.

My older one is in post-algebra.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine is doing pre algebra

Everything is pre algebra until you get to algebra and then it’s just algebra.

Yes my 18-month old is in pre-K.

[Anonymous]

Common Core and VA SOL are almost identical. But SOL introduces fractions in K.

What matters is what grade level is on the book/curriculum you are using.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your 4th graders learning in math? My son attends a "good" elementary school in
FCPS (recently awarded Blue Ribbon but not sure that actually means anything). He told me he's bored out of his mind during math as they're doing 3-digit addition. What are your 4th graders learning in math currently?

The "good" schools have the same curriculum as "bad" schools. Supplement at home

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Anonymous wrote:We are still on 3 digit addition and subtraction. A little fraction work. Like probability of pulling a blue marble out of a bag.

Same here. This is at a parochial school. They are finishing up reviewing last year before they start the new stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your 4th graders learning in math? My son attends a "good" elementary school in
FCPS (recently awarded Blue Ribbon but not sure that actually means anything). He told me he's bored out of his mind during math as they're doing 3-digit addition. What are your 4th graders learning in math currently?

They are learning far LESS than last year, thanks to the county lowering standards and decreasing expectations this year, because "equity:"

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1226968.page

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Guess who they learned it from

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Anonymous wrote:OP is your child in advanced math or the regular track? If your child is bored and not in advanced math, maybe chat with the teacher on whether advanced math (if offered at your school in 4th) would be a good fit?

Though FCPS did just water down at least the 3rd grade advanced math curriculum compared to prior years. Not sure about 4th.

They implemented the E3 math on 3rd and 4th grade this year. One of the Es is equity.

That is why your child is so bored in advanced math, OP. It is no longer advanced.

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That seems low. I bought an average (not acceleration) 2nd grade math drill book for DD and there’s 3 digit addition halfway through.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your 4th graders learning in math? My son attends a "good" elementary school in
FCPS (recently awarded Blue Ribbon but not sure that actually means anything). He told me he's bored out of his mind during math as they're doing 3-digit addition. What are your 4th graders learning in math currently?

The "good" schools have the same curriculum as "bad" schools. Supplement at home

This succinct post kinda blew my mind. It’s taken me like 3 years to realize and accept.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your 4th graders learning in math? My son attends a "good" elementary school in
FCPS (recently awarded Blue Ribbon but not sure that actually means anything). He told me he's bored out of his mind during math as they're doing 3-digit addition. What are your 4th graders learning in math currently?

The "good" schools have the same curriculum as "bad" schools. Supplement at home

It does seem that way more and more. Very few private schools use something enriched, the good ones maybe accelerate a little more, but they all seem to use the boring as he|| Eureka, enVision, Illustrative Mathematics, and Zearn, curricula. Eureka is single handedly making a whole generation of Americans want to become humanities majors. How many different ways can you solve 14 - 8 before you gouge your eyes out? A kindergartner can solve this with an abacus, a third grader needs to move on.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your 4th graders learning in math? My son attends a "good" elementary school in
FCPS (recently awarded Blue Ribbon but not sure that actually means anything). He told me he's bored out of his mind during math as they're doing 3-digit addition. What are your 4th graders learning in math currently?

The "good" schools have the same curriculum as "bad" schools. Supplement at home

It does seem that way more and more. Very few private schools use something enriched, the good ones maybe accelerate a little more, but they all seem to use the boring as he|| Eureka, enVision, Illustrative Mathematics, and Zearn, curricula. Eureka is single handedly making a whole generation of Americans want to become humanities majors. How many different ways can you solve 14 - 8 before you gouge your eyes out? A kindergartner can solve this with an abacus, a third grader needs to move on.

My 4th grader is working on area and perimeter… figuring out the sides of a rectangle when some information is missing. It’s the Eureka 4/5 curriculum (still in 4, now). She seems interested, enough and says math is her best subject. I like Eureka. The workbooks the kids bring home make it very easy to help.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your 4th graders learning in math? My son attends a "good" elementary school in
FCPS (recently awarded Blue Ribbon but not sure that actually means anything). He told me he's bored out of his mind during math as they're doing 3-digit addition. What are your 4th graders learning in math currently?

They are learning far LESS than last year, thanks to the county lowering standards and decreasing expectations this year, because "equity:"

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1226968.page

Are we sure this impacts 4th? We know it impacts 3rd.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your 4th graders learning in math? My son attends a "good" elementary school in
FCPS (recently awarded Blue Ribbon but not sure that actually means anything). He told me he's bored out of his mind during math as they're doing 3-digit addition. What are your 4th graders learning in math currently?

The "good" schools have the same curriculum as "bad" schools. Supplement at home

It does seem that way more and more. Very few private schools use something enriched, the good ones maybe accelerate a little more, but they all seem to use the boring as he|| Eureka, enVision, Illustrative Mathematics, and Zearn, curricula. Eureka is single handedly making a whole generation of Americans want to become humanities majors. How many different ways can you solve 14 - 8 before you gouge your eyes out? A kindergartner can solve this with an abacus, a third grader needs to move on.

My 4th grader is working on area and perimeter… figuring out the sides of a rectangle when some information is missing. It’s the Eureka 4/5 curriculum (still in 4, now). She seems interested, enough and says math is her best subject. I like Eureka. The workbooks the kids bring home make it very easy to help.

That was 3rd grade in Eureka? Surely they don’t do it again in 4th? My kid’s school uses IM and it seems a little bit more interesting for kids than Eureka, but only a little. My kid finished factors & multiples (which also covered prime & composite numbers) and is now on to place value & decimals.