What grade do you learn long division?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

That’s different. Like saying a 5yo is doing algebra because he can solve “what plus 4 equals 20”.

Also that’s not long division.

PP. I wasn't claiming that it was... I was simply pointing out that they seem to be teaching division earlier than my wife and I were taught - so I wouldn't be surprised if long division starts being taught earlier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

wow, I would never send my child to a preschool that has them sit and do math. Yikes.

NP. Yes, Montessori schools start teaching math and reading at a young age. Our daycare in DC does the same. If your 5-6 yo isn't being exposed to math, and reading (ex. site-words etc) they are more the exception than the norm in our experience.

lol at "site-words". We did play-based preschool, like most of the educated parents I know.

[Anonymous]

What other way is there to teach it besides the regular way?

[Anonymous]

I don't think my kids learned what I consider to be "regular" long division in FCPS, but I never needed to help them with whatever odd method they used so it didn't really matter.

My DH went to a Montessori school through second or third grade and entered public school unable to do any math at all. I guess they've changed their philosophy of they're teaching redshirted pre-K kids to divide!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fcps doesnt teach long division like we learned it. My kid was doing all this writing in the margins and didn't understand "carrying down" the next digit, etc.
I had no clue what DD was doing and, of course, there's no textbook so I have no clue how they're teaching the kids.
So annoyed.

DS learned all of those methods in 3rd and regular, traditional long division exactly the way I remember it in 4th. He’s in gen ed classes, not AAP in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

My kid hasn’t started pre school yet...
But can someone speak to this “not having a text book” thing I keep hearing about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

wow, I would never send my child to a preschool that has them sit and do math. Yikes.

NP. Yes, Montessori schools start teaching math and reading at a young age. Our daycare in DC does the same. If your 5-6 yo isn't being exposed to math, and reading (ex. site-words etc) they are more the exception than the norm in our experience.

lol at "site-words". We did play-based preschool, like most of the educated parents I know.

I’m not a grammar/spelling nazi but that was a particularly funny error, considering the context.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

wow, I would never send my child to a preschool that has them sit and do math. Yikes.

NP. Yes, Montessori schools start teaching math and reading at a young age. Our daycare in DC does the same. If your 5-6 yo isn't being exposed to math, and reading (ex. site-words etc) they are more the exception than the norm in our experience.

lol at "site-words". We did play-based preschool, like most of the educated parents I know.

I’m not a grammar/spelling nazi but that was a particularly funny error, considering the context.

Oops

[Anonymous]

4th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4th / 5th

This is my experience as well.

[Anonymous]

My kid’s school uses Go Math, and it is a pretty big unit of 5th grade. It spirals, so the concepts were introduced in 4th, but the traditional steps and problem sets like we learned them didn’t start till 5th.

[Anonymous]

I learned in 2nd grade

[Anonymous]

I was going with a 3rd grade class so I learned in 2nd Grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid’s school uses Go Math, and it is a pretty big unit of 5th grade. It spirals, so the concepts were introduced in 4th, but the traditional steps and problem sets like we learned them didn’t start till 5th.

I have taught 4th grade go math. Long division was covered early in the year. Between mulplicaion and fractions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

That’s different. Like saying a 5yo is doing algebra because he can solve “what plus 4 equals 20”.

Also that’s not long division.

PP. I wasn't claiming that it was... I was simply pointing out that they seem to be teaching division earlier than my wife and I were taught - so I wouldn't be surprised if long division starts being taught earlier

It's not.