What are your 4th graders learning in math?

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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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.