Anonymous wrote:
My child was in the pilot year of 2.0 in 2nd grade is now in 6th. We spoke to the teacher at the time, were told, she was not allowed to teach an algorithm. If things have mellowed since then, that's encouraging, but my DC is still at the bleeding edge of the rollout and we've only seen worse in the time since then. Nonetheless, the standard algorithm is not actually mentioned in the second grade standards:
You're right, I was wrong, the standards do not explicitly call for fluency in the standard algorithm. Still, it's a huge leap from "students will be able to solve the problems using various methods" to "teachers are not allowed to teach the standard algorithm". That's unfortunate, and I wonder how it happened.
Yes, it was a logical fallacy but I'm pretty certain it didn't originate with DC's teacher as she disagreed with the policy. Anyway, there's also nothing in the standards saying a second grader should be prevented from working on third grade material, etc, but MCPS is going to stick to their guns on that one. I'm not seeking extreme acceleration, but math is a continuum and it never makes sense to withhold material from someone who has already learned the required material.
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