Help with 3rd Grade Multiplication and Division

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Anonymous wrote:Also, wanted to share that as a MS teacher, our school has students working on 3rd grade math skills in IXL because they came up as deficits in MAP tests but the geometry teacher “don’t have time to go back and teach those skills”. So it sounds like the issue might be with the 3rd grade curriculum.

This year’s 6th graders were 3rd graders when schools closed in March 2020. MCPS switched their curriculum to Eureka when schools went virtual because there were Eureka videos online. Unfortunately the order of topics didn’t overlap properly with the previous 3rd grade curriculum, so they were taught the 3rd grade math lessons they had already covered in Jan/Feb and didn’t learn what they were supposed to cover for March-June. Then 4th grade was the mostly virtual year and MCPS omitted/condensed a ton of lessons (including all of geometry) because you couldn’t cover everything if there was no teaching on Wednesdays, which I personally can’t believe was allowed to go on the entire year. The idea is that those concepts would be covered in future years. Like in middle school. But they obviously did not communicate to teachers of higher grade levels what these kids missed. I’m sorry teachers that you are having to clean up the mess MCPS created. But your union advocated to keep schools closed and to give teachers tons of planning time at the expense of instructional time on Wednesdays. The only people who are innocent in this outcome are the kids. Thank you for giving them grace and realizing if they haven’t been exposed to these concepts it is not their fault.

At least get your facts straight before posting so matter of factly. No, MCPS didn’t switch to Eureka because they had videos online. The majority of schools made the switch before the pandemic. Only a handful switched after the pandemic and that is because they were going to in the fall anyway. Stop blaming everyone else for the fact your kid is behind. They were likely behind pre-pandemic, you just didn’t have anyone to conveniently blame it on like you do now. Parents in this county love to blame everyone but themselves for their shortcomings. I speak as a parent who sees it in every activity my kid is involved in. Parents simply don’t do their jobs. Time to take some responsibility. I know it’s super easy to blame teachers but look in the mirror. This is on you too.

? My kid is not behind and never was. Why do you keep insisting this? I was not one of the “open schools” people and my own children did not experience any issues with virtual. And I didn’t blame individual teachers. I said the teachers union advocated for priorities that benefited teachers, which is their job of course, but those priorities were in direct opposition of prioritizing students. I do not think it is the responsibility of parents to teach omitted curriculum if the school system just decides not to teach it. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t do what I needed to do for my own child, but for a public school system that is supposed to educate all students, it is ridiculously inequitable to expect parents to become educators if the school omits large chunks of the curriculum. And for the record, Eureka was being piloted in some schools. Certainly not most so check your own facts. Yes they were going to switch in the fall anyway, but they accelerated the switch in March 2020 for the non pilot schools because of the virtual Eureka content. So the mcps teachers weren’t responsible for making their own videos. Truth.

*Sigh* not true. Most teachers taught the lessons virtually; the videos were for kids who couldnt sign on. Most schools already had Eureka. You are just wrong, but continue to pretend, as a parent, you know about how the entire district works. You're expected to be a parent whether theres a pandemic or not- a fact most parents seem to have forgotten. Your post is laden with micro-aggressions. "Chunks: of elementary curriculum were not omitted. Schools that didn't use Eureka weren't ahead- they were behind actually. You seem to have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll applaud your attempts.

I literally don’t even know why I keep engaging with this troll but this was absolutely not true at our school. I obviously can’t speak to what was taught at other schools. At our school, the teachers assigned a Eureka lesson each day to be completed asynchronously. The video with a non mcps teacher was to be watched and worksheet completed independently and submitted to the teacher, who did not grade it because there were not grades for ES students in spring 2020. The next morning the teacher would conduct a short live zoom that at times went over the answers, but more commonly included a lot of social emotional homeroom types of activities, read alouds, kahoots, etc. Minimal direct instruction and the zoom was only about 30 minutes a day in the morning. No one was conducting 7 hr zooms. The videos were not for kids who couldn’t sign on — they were for all students. At our school, the majority of kids could and did sign on, but not all.

I can’t even believe you would accuse me of micro aggressions in my post. Your premise is entirely based upon all kinds of assumptions and terrible thoughts about other parents and schools who were “behind” or who didn’t take care of their kids and is rife with baseless claims and accusations.

Finally, here is a link to an article about certain types of omitted content:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-families-question-omitted-content-from-virtual-curriculum.amp
It is in response to a system wide quick notes email MCPS sent on 4/21/21 with links to documents outlining all of the omitted/condensed topics they did not cover. Spoiler: it was a lot of topics.

DP- you keep insisting you’re right about why Eureka was chosen for virtual. You’re just wrong. Deal with it. Also, you just proved their point with that article…
“ "When I was looking at math curriculum and saw that the first graders didn’t get the difference between a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter and didn’t learn how to tell time on the hour and a half hour, that really struck me because those are basic life skills," said MCPS parent, Jessica Hasson.”

Yeah… things parent could easily teach their kids and should have been doing all along. It’s just embarrassing the level of work other parents won’t put in but use an excuse for their kids being behind. Do. Your. Job.

So if my school *wasn’t* part of the Eureka pilot and was still using curriculum 2.0, which my child’s teacher was trained on, why *didn’t* my school continue with that? If there *hadn’t* been a pandemic, would we have shifted to Eureka in March/April 2020 because “we were going to switch to that in the Fall?” No, we would not have.

[Anonymous]

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/elementary-schools/a-c/bannockburnes/uploadedfiles/news/continuity-of-learning/may-18-may-29--eureka-math-packets.pdf

This is not my school. Here’s a link to an MCPS school where the majority of the population had access to a device and internet. Click on the instructions for the grade level. You will see the direct instruction was via an online Eureka video. Then the student was to complete the worksheet asynchronously. The MCPS teacher would do a short live “debrief” after the fact. This is what MCPS was doing. It is called a flipped classroom model.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, wanted to share that as a MS teacher, our school has students working on 3rd grade math skills in IXL because they came up as deficits in MAP tests but the geometry teacher “don’t have time to go back and teach those skills”. So it sounds like the issue might be with the 3rd grade curriculum.

This year’s 6th graders were 3rd graders when schools closed in March 2020. MCPS switched their curriculum to Eureka when schools went virtual because there were Eureka videos online. Unfortunately the order of topics didn’t overlap properly with the previous 3rd grade curriculum, so they were taught the 3rd grade math lessons they had already covered in Jan/Feb and didn’t learn what they were supposed to cover for March-June. Then 4th grade was the mostly virtual year and MCPS omitted/condensed a ton of lessons (including all of geometry) because you couldn’t cover everything if there was no teaching on Wednesdays, which I personally can’t believe was allowed to go on the entire year. The idea is that those concepts would be covered in future years. Like in middle school. But they obviously did not communicate to teachers of higher grade levels what these kids missed. I’m sorry teachers that you are having to clean up the mess MCPS created. But your union advocated to keep schools closed and to give teachers tons of planning time at the expense of instructional time on Wednesdays. The only people who are innocent in this outcome are the kids. Thank you for giving them grace and realizing if they haven’t been exposed to these concepts it is not their fault.

At least get your facts straight before posting so matter of factly. No, MCPS didn’t switch to Eureka because they had videos online. The majority of schools made the switch before the pandemic. Only a handful switched after the pandemic and that is because they were going to in the fall anyway. Stop blaming everyone else for the fact your kid is behind. They were likely behind pre-pandemic, you just didn’t have anyone to conveniently blame it on like you do now. Parents in this county love to blame everyone but themselves for their shortcomings. I speak as a parent who sees it in every activity my kid is involved in. Parents simply don’t do their jobs. Time to take some responsibility. I know it’s super easy to blame teachers but look in the mirror. This is on you too.

? My kid is not behind and never was. Why do you keep insisting this? I was not one of the “open schools” people and my own children did not experience any issues with virtual. And I didn’t blame individual teachers. I said the teachers union advocated for priorities that benefited teachers, which is their job of course, but those priorities were in direct opposition of prioritizing students. I do not think it is the responsibility of parents to teach omitted curriculum if the school system just decides not to teach it. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t do what I needed to do for my own child, but for a public school system that is supposed to educate all students, it is ridiculously inequitable to expect parents to become educators if the school omits large chunks of the curriculum. And for the record, Eureka was being piloted in some schools. Certainly not most so check your own facts. Yes they were going to switch in the fall anyway, but they accelerated the switch in March 2020 for the non pilot schools because of the virtual Eureka content. So the mcps teachers weren’t responsible for making their own videos. Truth.

*Sigh* not true. Most teachers taught the lessons virtually; the videos were for kids who couldnt sign on. Most schools already had Eureka. You are just wrong, but continue to pretend, as a parent, you know about how the entire district works. You're expected to be a parent whether theres a pandemic or not- a fact most parents seem to have forgotten. Your post is laden with micro-aggressions. "Chunks: of elementary curriculum were not omitted. Schools that didn't use Eureka weren't ahead- they were behind actually. You seem to have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll applaud your attempts.

I literally don’t even know why I keep engaging with this troll but this was absolutely not true at our school. I obviously can’t speak to what was taught at other schools. At our school, the teachers assigned a Eureka lesson each day to be completed asynchronously. The video with a non mcps teacher was to be watched and worksheet completed independently and submitted to the teacher, who did not grade it because there were not grades for ES students in spring 2020. The next morning the teacher would conduct a short live zoom that at times went over the answers, but more commonly included a lot of social emotional homeroom types of activities, read alouds, kahoots, etc. Minimal direct instruction and the zoom was only about 30 minutes a day in the morning. No one was conducting 7 hr zooms. The videos were not for kids who couldn’t sign on — they were for all students. At our school, the majority of kids could and did sign on, but not all.

I can’t even believe you would accuse me of micro aggressions in my post. Your premise is entirely based upon all kinds of assumptions and terrible thoughts about other parents and schools who were “behind” or who didn’t take care of their kids and is rife with baseless claims and accusations.

Finally, here is a link to an article about certain types of omitted content:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-families-question-omitted-content-from-virtual-curriculum.amp
It is in response to a system wide quick notes email MCPS sent on 4/21/21 with links to documents outlining all of the omitted/condensed topics they did not cover. Spoiler: it was a lot of topics.

You were at a really bad school as the teachers were teaching at most schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, wanted to share that as a MS teacher, our school has students working on 3rd grade math skills in IXL because they came up as deficits in MAP tests but the geometry teacher “don’t have time to go back and teach those skills”. So it sounds like the issue might be with the 3rd grade curriculum.

This year’s 6th graders were 3rd graders when schools closed in March 2020. MCPS switched their curriculum to Eureka when schools went virtual because there were Eureka videos online. Unfortunately the order of topics didn’t overlap properly with the previous 3rd grade curriculum, so they were taught the 3rd grade math lessons they had already covered in Jan/Feb and didn’t learn what they were supposed to cover for March-June. Then 4th grade was the mostly virtual year and MCPS omitted/condensed a ton of lessons (including all of geometry) because you couldn’t cover everything if there was no teaching on Wednesdays, which I personally can’t believe was allowed to go on the entire year. The idea is that those concepts would be covered in future years. Like in middle school. But they obviously did not communicate to teachers of higher grade levels what these kids missed. I’m sorry teachers that you are having to clean up the mess MCPS created. But your union advocated to keep schools closed and to give teachers tons of planning time at the expense of instructional time on Wednesdays. The only people who are innocent in this outcome are the kids. Thank you for giving them grace and realizing if they haven’t been exposed to these concepts it is not their fault.

At least get your facts straight before posting so matter of factly. No, MCPS didn’t switch to Eureka because they had videos online. The majority of schools made the switch before the pandemic. Only a handful switched after the pandemic and that is because they were going to in the fall anyway. Stop blaming everyone else for the fact your kid is behind. They were likely behind pre-pandemic, you just didn’t have anyone to conveniently blame it on like you do now. Parents in this county love to blame everyone but themselves for their shortcomings. I speak as a parent who sees it in every activity my kid is involved in. Parents simply don’t do their jobs. Time to take some responsibility. I know it’s super easy to blame teachers but look in the mirror. This is on you too.

? My kid is not behind and never was. Why do you keep insisting this? I was not one of the “open schools” people and my own children did not experience any issues with virtual. And I didn’t blame individual teachers. I said the teachers union advocated for priorities that benefited teachers, which is their job of course, but those priorities were in direct opposition of prioritizing students. I do not think it is the responsibility of parents to teach omitted curriculum if the school system just decides not to teach it. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t do what I needed to do for my own child, but for a public school system that is supposed to educate all students, it is ridiculously inequitable to expect parents to become educators if the school omits large chunks of the curriculum. And for the record, Eureka was being piloted in some schools. Certainly not most so check your own facts. Yes they were going to switch in the fall anyway, but they accelerated the switch in March 2020 for the non pilot schools because of the virtual Eureka content. So the mcps teachers weren’t responsible for making their own videos. Truth.

*Sigh* not true. Most teachers taught the lessons virtually; the videos were for kids who couldnt sign on. Most schools already had Eureka. You are just wrong, but continue to pretend, as a parent, you know about how the entire district works. You're expected to be a parent whether theres a pandemic or not- a fact most parents seem to have forgotten. Your post is laden with micro-aggressions. "Chunks: of elementary curriculum were not omitted. Schools that didn't use Eureka weren't ahead- they were behind actually. You seem to have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll applaud your attempts.

I literally don’t even know why I keep engaging with this troll but this was absolutely not true at our school. I obviously can’t speak to what was taught at other schools. At our school, the teachers assigned a Eureka lesson each day to be completed asynchronously. The video with a non mcps teacher was to be watched and worksheet completed independently and submitted to the teacher, who did not grade it because there were not grades for ES students in spring 2020. The next morning the teacher would conduct a short live zoom that at times went over the answers, but more commonly included a lot of social emotional homeroom types of activities, read alouds, kahoots, etc. Minimal direct instruction and the zoom was only about 30 minutes a day in the morning. No one was conducting 7 hr zooms. The videos were not for kids who couldn’t sign on — they were for all students. At our school, the majority of kids could and did sign on, but not all.

I can’t even believe you would accuse me of micro aggressions in my post. Your premise is entirely based upon all kinds of assumptions and terrible thoughts about other parents and schools who were “behind” or who didn’t take care of their kids and is rife with baseless claims and accusations.

Finally, here is a link to an article about certain types of omitted content:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-families-question-omitted-content-from-virtual-curriculum.amp
It is in response to a system wide quick notes email MCPS sent on 4/21/21 with links to documents outlining all of the omitted/condensed topics they did not cover. Spoiler: it was a lot of topics.

You were at a really bad school as the teachers were teaching at most schools.

Yep, you’re right. We were at a “really bad school” and I’m so glad I have you, knowledgeable stranger, to point this out for me. Could you let me know what your amazing school was, so I may move there right away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, wanted to share that as a MS teacher, our school has students working on 3rd grade math skills in IXL because they came up as deficits in MAP tests but the geometry teacher “don’t have time to go back and teach those skills”. So it sounds like the issue might be with the 3rd grade curriculum.

This year’s 6th graders were 3rd graders when schools closed in March 2020. MCPS switched their curriculum to Eureka when schools went virtual because there were Eureka videos online. Unfortunately the order of topics didn’t overlap properly with the previous 3rd grade curriculum, so they were taught the 3rd grade math lessons they had already covered in Jan/Feb and didn’t learn what they were supposed to cover for March-June. Then 4th grade was the mostly virtual year and MCPS omitted/condensed a ton of lessons (including all of geometry) because you couldn’t cover everything if there was no teaching on Wednesdays, which I personally can’t believe was allowed to go on the entire year. The idea is that those concepts would be covered in future years. Like in middle school. But they obviously did not communicate to teachers of higher grade levels what these kids missed. I’m sorry teachers that you are having to clean up the mess MCPS created. But your union advocated to keep schools closed and to give teachers tons of planning time at the expense of instructional time on Wednesdays. The only people who are innocent in this outcome are the kids. Thank you for giving them grace and realizing if they haven’t been exposed to these concepts it is not their fault.

At least get your facts straight before posting so matter of factly. No, MCPS didn’t switch to Eureka because they had videos online. The majority of schools made the switch before the pandemic. Only a handful switched after the pandemic and that is because they were going to in the fall anyway. Stop blaming everyone else for the fact your kid is behind. They were likely behind pre-pandemic, you just didn’t have anyone to conveniently blame it on like you do now. Parents in this county love to blame everyone but themselves for their shortcomings. I speak as a parent who sees it in every activity my kid is involved in. Parents simply don’t do their jobs. Time to take some responsibility. I know it’s super easy to blame teachers but look in the mirror. This is on you too.

? My kid is not behind and never was. Why do you keep insisting this? I was not one of the “open schools” people and my own children did not experience any issues with virtual. And I didn’t blame individual teachers. I said the teachers union advocated for priorities that benefited teachers, which is their job of course, but those priorities were in direct opposition of prioritizing students. I do not think it is the responsibility of parents to teach omitted curriculum if the school system just decides not to teach it. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t do what I needed to do for my own child, but for a public school system that is supposed to educate all students, it is ridiculously inequitable to expect parents to become educators if the school omits large chunks of the curriculum. And for the record, Eureka was being piloted in some schools. Certainly not most so check your own facts. Yes they were going to switch in the fall anyway, but they accelerated the switch in March 2020 for the non pilot schools because of the virtual Eureka content. So the mcps teachers weren’t responsible for making their own videos. Truth.

*Sigh* not true. Most teachers taught the lessons virtually; the videos were for kids who couldnt sign on. Most schools already had Eureka. You are just wrong, but continue to pretend, as a parent, you know about how the entire district works. You're expected to be a parent whether theres a pandemic or not- a fact most parents seem to have forgotten. Your post is laden with micro-aggressions. "Chunks: of elementary curriculum were not omitted. Schools that didn't use Eureka weren't ahead- they were behind actually. You seem to have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll applaud your attempts.

I literally don’t even know why I keep engaging with this troll but this was absolutely not true at our school. I obviously can’t speak to what was taught at other schools. At our school, the teachers assigned a Eureka lesson each day to be completed asynchronously. The video with a non mcps teacher was to be watched and worksheet completed independently and submitted to the teacher, who did not grade it because there were not grades for ES students in spring 2020. The next morning the teacher would conduct a short live zoom that at times went over the answers, but more commonly included a lot of social emotional homeroom types of activities, read alouds, kahoots, etc. Minimal direct instruction and the zoom was only about 30 minutes a day in the morning. No one was conducting 7 hr zooms. The videos were not for kids who couldn’t sign on — they were for all students. At our school, the majority of kids could and did sign on, but not all.

I can’t even believe you would accuse me of micro aggressions in my post. Your premise is entirely based upon all kinds of assumptions and terrible thoughts about other parents and schools who were “behind” or who didn’t take care of their kids and is rife with baseless claims and accusations.

Finally, here is a link to an article about certain types of omitted content:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-families-question-omitted-content-from-virtual-curriculum.amp
It is in response to a system wide quick notes email MCPS sent on 4/21/21 with links to documents outlining all of the omitted/condensed topics they did not cover. Spoiler: it was a lot of topics.

DP- you keep insisting you’re right about why Eureka was chosen for virtual. You’re just wrong. Deal with it. Also, you just proved their point with that article…
“ "When I was looking at math curriculum and saw that the first graders didn’t get the difference between a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter and didn’t learn how to tell time on the hour and a half hour, that really struck me because those are basic life skills," said MCPS parent, Jessica Hasson.”

Yeah… things parent could easily teach their kids and should have been doing all along. It’s just embarrassing the level of work other parents won’t put in but use an excuse for their kids being behind. Do. Your. Job.

So if my school *wasn’t* part of the Eureka pilot and was still using curriculum 2.0, which my child’s teacher was trained on, why *didn’t* my school continue with that? If there *hadn’t* been a pandemic, would we have shifted to Eureka in March/April 2020 because “we were going to switch to that in the Fall?” No, we would not have.

Lol glad you asked because yup...most schools were switching early March BECAUSE it aligned so well with where Eurkea was...Keep trying to find things to fight about though. I love when people who have n no idea what they are talking about keep proving themselves to be moronic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/elementary-schools/a-c/bannockburnes/uploadedfiles/news/continuity-of-learning/may-18-may-29--eureka-math-packets.pdf

This is not my school. Here’s a link to an MCPS school where the majority of the population had access to a device and internet. Click on the instructions for the grade level. You will see the direct instruction was via an online Eureka video. Then the student was to complete the worksheet asynchronously. The MCPS teacher would do a short live “debrief” after the fact. This is what MCPS was doing. It is called a flipped classroom model.

You sweet summer child...Teachers taught that lesson live on Zoom. The link was provided to all students who could not log in. I don't know how else to help you. Also, it is October 2022. Seek some help, you seem like you need it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, wanted to share that as a MS teacher, our school has students working on 3rd grade math skills in IXL because they came up as deficits in MAP tests but the geometry teacher “don’t have time to go back and teach those skills”. So it sounds like the issue might be with the 3rd grade curriculum.

This year’s 6th graders were 3rd graders when schools closed in March 2020. MCPS switched their curriculum to Eureka when schools went virtual because there were Eureka videos online. Unfortunately the order of topics didn’t overlap properly with the previous 3rd grade curriculum, so they were taught the 3rd grade math lessons they had already covered in Jan/Feb and didn’t learn what they were supposed to cover for March-June. Then 4th grade was the mostly virtual year and MCPS omitted/condensed a ton of lessons (including all of geometry) because you couldn’t cover everything if there was no teaching on Wednesdays, which I personally can’t believe was allowed to go on the entire year. The idea is that those concepts would be covered in future years. Like in middle school. But they obviously did not communicate to teachers of higher grade levels what these kids missed. I’m sorry teachers that you are having to clean up the mess MCPS created. But your union advocated to keep schools closed and to give teachers tons of planning time at the expense of instructional time on Wednesdays. The only people who are innocent in this outcome are the kids. Thank you for giving them grace and realizing if they haven’t been exposed to these concepts it is not their fault.

At least get your facts straight before posting so matter of factly. No, MCPS didn’t switch to Eureka because they had videos online. The majority of schools made the switch before the pandemic. Only a handful switched after the pandemic and that is because they were going to in the fall anyway. Stop blaming everyone else for the fact your kid is behind. They were likely behind pre-pandemic, you just didn’t have anyone to conveniently blame it on like you do now. Parents in this county love to blame everyone but themselves for their shortcomings. I speak as a parent who sees it in every activity my kid is involved in. Parents simply don’t do their jobs. Time to take some responsibility. I know it’s super easy to blame teachers but look in the mirror. This is on you too.

? My kid is not behind and never was. Why do you keep insisting this? I was not one of the “open schools” people and my own children did not experience any issues with virtual. And I didn’t blame individual teachers. I said the teachers union advocated for priorities that benefited teachers, which is their job of course, but those priorities were in direct opposition of prioritizing students. I do not think it is the responsibility of parents to teach omitted curriculum if the school system just decides not to teach it. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t do what I needed to do for my own child, but for a public school system that is supposed to educate all students, it is ridiculously inequitable to expect parents to become educators if the school omits large chunks of the curriculum. And for the record, Eureka was being piloted in some schools. Certainly not most so check your own facts. Yes they were going to switch in the fall anyway, but they accelerated the switch in March 2020 for the non pilot schools because of the virtual Eureka content. So the mcps teachers weren’t responsible for making their own videos. Truth.

*Sigh* not true. Most teachers taught the lessons virtually; the videos were for kids who couldnt sign on. Most schools already had Eureka. You are just wrong, but continue to pretend, as a parent, you know about how the entire district works. You're expected to be a parent whether theres a pandemic or not- a fact most parents seem to have forgotten. Your post is laden with micro-aggressions. "Chunks: of elementary curriculum were not omitted. Schools that didn't use Eureka weren't ahead- they were behind actually. You seem to have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll applaud your attempts.

I literally don’t even know why I keep engaging with this troll but this was absolutely not true at our school. I obviously can’t speak to what was taught at other schools. At our school, the teachers assigned a Eureka lesson each day to be completed asynchronously. The video with a non mcps teacher was to be watched and worksheet completed independently and submitted to the teacher, who did not grade it because there were not grades for ES students in spring 2020. The next morning the teacher would conduct a short live zoom that at times went over the answers, but more commonly included a lot of social emotional homeroom types of activities, read alouds, kahoots, etc. Minimal direct instruction and the zoom was only about 30 minutes a day in the morning. No one was conducting 7 hr zooms. The videos were not for kids who couldn’t sign on — they were for all students. At our school, the majority of kids could and did sign on, but not all.

I can’t even believe you would accuse me of micro aggressions in my post. Your premise is entirely based upon all kinds of assumptions and terrible thoughts about other parents and schools who were “behind” or who didn’t take care of their kids and is rife with baseless claims and accusations.

Finally, here is a link to an article about certain types of omitted content:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-families-question-omitted-content-from-virtual-curriculum.amp
It is in response to a system wide quick notes email MCPS sent on 4/21/21 with links to documents outlining all of the omitted/condensed topics they did not cover. Spoiler: it was a lot of topics.

DP- you keep insisting you’re right about why Eureka was chosen for virtual. You’re just wrong. Deal with it. Also, you just proved their point with that article…
“ "When I was looking at math curriculum and saw that the first graders didn’t get the difference between a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter and didn’t learn how to tell time on the hour and a half hour, that really struck me because those are basic life skills," said MCPS parent, Jessica Hasson.”

Yeah… things parent could easily teach their kids and should have been doing all along. It’s just embarrassing the level of work other parents won’t put in but use an excuse for their kids being behind. Do. Your. Job.

The issue many people had with MCPS was that this report was sent out in April 2021! If MCPS made the decision to omit this much content in September, which they did decide, at least tell people A) that you plan to skip stuff and B) what you skipped! How am I supposed to know what *wasnt* taught so I can “do my job” as you say? I’m not a mind reader.

I'm a parent. I don't need a guide to tell me that my 1st grader should know basic money concepts and how to tell time. It's really telling that parents like you exist. No wonder we are so far behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/elementary-schools/a-c/bannockburnes/uploadedfiles/news/continuity-of-learning/may-18-may-29--eureka-math-packets.pdf

This is not my school. Here’s a link to an MCPS school where the majority of the population had access to a device and internet. Click on the instructions for the grade level. You will see the direct instruction was via an online Eureka video. Then the student was to complete the worksheet asynchronously. The MCPS teacher would do a short live “debrief” after the fact. This is what MCPS was doing. It is called a flipped classroom model.

Those videos were god-awful. They should have linked to Khan videos instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/elementary-schools/a-c/bannockburnes/uploadedfiles/news/continuity-of-learning/may-18-may-29--eureka-math-packets.pdf

This is not my school. Here’s a link to an MCPS school where the majority of the population had access to a device and internet. Click on the instructions for the grade level. You will see the direct instruction was via an online Eureka video. Then the student was to complete the worksheet asynchronously. The MCPS teacher would do a short live “debrief” after the fact. This is what MCPS was doing. It is called a flipped classroom model.

Those videos were god-awful. They should have linked to Khan videos instead.

Or you, as a parent, could have made that life choice for your kids. Amazing, right?! ....Everyone wants kids but no one wants to be a parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/elementary-schools/a-c/bannockburnes/uploadedfiles/news/continuity-of-learning/may-18-may-29--eureka-math-packets.pdf

This is not my school. Here’s a link to an MCPS school where the majority of the population had access to a device and internet. Click on the instructions for the grade level. You will see the direct instruction was via an online Eureka video. Then the student was to complete the worksheet asynchronously. The MCPS teacher would do a short live “debrief” after the fact. This is what MCPS was doing. It is called a flipped classroom model.

Those videos were god-awful. They should have linked to Khan videos instead.

Or you, as a parent, could have made that life choice for your kids. Amazing, right?! ....Everyone wants kids but no one wants to be a parent.

Khan videos are factual but kind of dry. There's so many better options.

[Anonymous]

What are some resources to help my 3rd grader understand division? He's got the multiplication facts down but division is proving to be a but more challenging.

[Anonymous]

The PBS show Cyberchase is great about making math fun and relatable. I think their episode The Halloween Howl (Season 5, Episode 1) deals with division. The episode can be found here. Please note that each episode is broken into parts and plays in reverse, so you’ll have to start each segment separately.
https://pbskids.org/cyberchase/videos/?selectedID=...5c-0ec9-4490-9f88-7890cfb1689a

Anonymous wrote:What are some resources to help my 3rd grader understand division? He's got the multiplication facts down but division is proving to be a but more challenging.

The best explanation I’ve come across was in the book Quick Arithmetic by Robert A. Carman. Designed for adults who are trying to teach/reteach themselves arithmetic, it’s the clearest, most readable math book I’ve seen.

https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Arithmetic-Self-Teaching-Guide-Guides/dp/0471384941/ref=asc_df_0471384941/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312065538926&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15191492194145418361&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007780&hvtargid=pla-572207227198&psc=1

The Montgomery County public library has an online version, you may be able to get it through your local library system.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I’m not sure why my earlier posting put the OP’s post in the middle.

Anonymous wrote:What are some resources to help my 3rd grader understand division? He's got the multiplication facts down but division is proving to be a but more challenging.

The PBS show Cyberchase is great about making math fun and relatable. I think their episode The Halloween Howl (Season 5, Episode 1) deals with division. The episode can be found here. Please note that each episode is broken into parts and plays in reverse, so you’ll have to start each segment separately.
https://pbskids.org/cyberchase/videos/?selectedID=...5c-0ec9-4490-9f88-7890cfb1689a

The best explanation I’ve come across was in the book Quick Arithmetic by Robert A. Carman. Designed for adults who are trying to teach/reteach themselves arithmetic, it’s the clearest, most readable math book I’ve seen.

https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Arithmetic-Self-Teaching-Guide-Guides/dp/0471384941/ref=asc_df_0471384941/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312065538926&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15191492194145418361&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007780&hvtargid=pla-572207227198&psc=1

The Montgomery County public library has an online version, you may be able to get it through your local library system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the teacher isn't giving grades for the Eureka Math Fluency worksheets. Those are not approved by the math office to receive grades.

Can you tell me more about this? My 4th grader's math teacher is giving them speed drills every other week, and they are being recorded in ParentVue. (I've seen them - not Eureka sprints but her own version of tests.) My daughter knows her facts just fine, but speed is not her strength, and she get even more stressed with time limits. I'd like to complain, and if there's an official policy as you suggested above, that would help even more.