Second grade math.

[Anonymous]

What is your child doing now in second grade math?

[Anonymous]

...is a joke at Beauvoir and Sidwell and...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...is a joke at Beauvoir and Sidwell and...

... Pretty much any private school.

[Anonymous]

Why is this the case? And I ask this question honestly. I would really like to understand why so many privates have such weak elementary math curriculums?

[Anonymous]

I was wondering about this too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this the case? And I ask this question honestly. I would really like to understand why so many privates have such weak elementary math curriculums?

They don't have weak math programs; the math is fine there. PP was just making a joke about how anytime math gets mentioned here, someone feels compelled to claim that private schools are unable to teach math. (At least, that's my interpretation.)

[Anonymous]

My son is doing triple digit multiplication and equivalent fractions and long division. He is at Bowie Montessori.

[Anonymous]

Addends to 11. Really.

[Anonymous]

Just for comparison sake -- my child is in MCPS. They are working on addition and subtraction up to 20, and various things with place value (e.g., counting by tens and hundreds). MCPS is trying to emphasize really learning the basics (arithmetic) as well as thinking more conceptually -- e.g., different ways to express the same number or the same equation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is doing triple digit multiplication and equivalent fractions and long division. He is at Bowie Montessori.

Impressive...if both sets if numbers are triple digits:

324
X
986

[Anonymous]

Addition and Subtraction within 1,000 with and without regrouping. Comparing 3 digit numbers. Emphasis on explaining the processes using place value concepts. - DCPS

[Anonymous]

To PP, for the math problems, the ones he gets are like this:

38956734
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345

He asks for challenging problems from the teacher and the teacher gives it to him. He loves math.

[Anonymous]

My daughter did pretty challenging stuff in her Pre-K Montessori, but in her elementary private math is weak. K and 1st grade math are weaker than Pre-K Moentessori math. Otherwise it's a very nice school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To PP, for the math problems, the ones he gets are like this:

38956734
X
345

He asks for challenging problems from the teacher and the teacher gives it to him. He loves math.

This is not a challenging problem. Once you've mastered the algorithm, churning out more digits is trivial. If he wants challenge, the teacher should be giving him word problems that require him to figure out which techniques he needs to use to solve a problem. Math puzzles like cryptarithms are also good.

(I'm criticizing the teacher, not your son, in case that needs to be said.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To PP, for the math problems, the ones he gets are like this:

38956734
X
345

He asks for challenging problems from the teacher and the teacher gives it to him. He loves math.

This is not a challenging problem. Once you've mastered the algorithm, churning out more digits is trivial. If he wants challenge, the teacher should be giving him word problems that require him to figure out which techniques he needs to use to solve a problem. Math puzzles like cryptarithms are also good.

(I'm criticizing the teacher, not your son, in case that needs to be said.)

True, but the child would have to know multiplication facts...and my second grader knows some by heart (2s, 3s, 4s, 10s, and 11s) but not all by any means.