Have been stereotyped as a 'Tiger Mom.' Strangest note from teacher.

[Anonymous]

OP are you sure she didn't send it to everyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

"Sloth Bear" mom here. This is precisely the reason that my kids are silent about what they know.

My kids have an affinity to Math and it would be great that they could get a chance to participate in Math related competitions like MathCounts and Math Olympiad etc in MS. I am not holding my breath that MCPS or even private schools have the capacity to teach them that. So, I teach and enrich them outside of school, and they know to keep it quiet in front of the teachers.

There is no lack of math resources online. Cheap and affordable. There is no reason to rely on MCPS.

Either your children's teachers are stupid, or they are not paying attention, or they know more about what you're doing than you give them credit for.

Actually, I am guessing that they just do not want to know what kind of supplementing one is doing at home. Their issue may be that kids are preferring to use the old way to solve problems and are not receptive to the new way - and the teachers are being pressurized to implement the new way of doing Math. I think that is the crux of the problem.

In any case - they should have noticed that DC is scoring very high in the MAP-M exams. How did they think that was happening? It is not as if my DC is a Math genius.

[Anonymous]

I doubt this is it. In first grade, the problem is that many kids can do addition and subtraction in their heads. They don't want to draw circles and count them. They understand math already. This happens whether you supplement or not. Very few K or 1st grade that I've ever encountered in this area are just learning how to county and do basic addition/subtract at this age. Heck our Montessori preschool did this with 3 and 4 year olds. They did fine but once they hit MCPS they have to wait until 3rd grade to learn anything new.

[Anonymous]

Shame on you, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt this is it. In first grade, the problem is that many kids can do addition and subtraction in their heads. They don't want to draw circles and count them. They understand math already. This happens whether you supplement or not. Very few K or 1st grade that I've ever encountered in this area are just learning how to county and do basic addition/subtract at this age. Heck our Montessori preschool did this with 3 and 4 year olds. They did fine but once they hit MCPS they have to wait until 3rd grade to learn anything new.

That's interesting. Just the other day, I was reading right here on DCUM that 8 + _ = 10 was too hard for first-graders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:those who look like they could be from certain countries where the sterotypical Tiger Mom comes from.

And what physical features distinguish them?

Still waiting for an answer to my question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:those who look like they could be from certain countries where the sterotypical Tiger Mom comes from.

And what physical features distinguish them?

Still waiting for an answer to my question.

They have stripes. OBViously.

[Anonymous]

They are brown. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are brown. Duh.

Russians and Chinese are brown?

[Anonymous]

to a few parents, including us

How would you know this?

I don't believe the op. Or at least I don't think it happened the way she is describing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shame on you, OP.

Hey, broken record! Stop this litany and try and make some sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I doubt this is it. In first grade, the problem is that many kids can do addition and subtraction in their heads. They don't want to draw circles and count them. They understand math already. This happens whether you supplement or not. Very few K or 1st grade that I've ever encountered in this area are just learning how to county and do basic addition/subtract at this age. Heck our Montessori preschool did this with 3 and 4 year olds. They did fine but once they hit MCPS they have to wait until 3rd grade to learn anything new.

That's interesting. Just the other day, I was reading right here on DCUM that 8 + _ = 10 was too hard for first-graders.

I completely disagree with that - definitely not too hard for 1st graders (I have a 1st grader).

[Anonymous]

why would a teacher complain about parents' suppliment? Isn't that a good thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why would a teacher complain about parents' suppliment? Isn't that a good thing?

Not if it counters what the teacher is teaching and the kid is not receptive to the teacher's methods. Doesn't matter what you think of the teaching method.

[Anonymous]

why would a teacher complain about parents' suppliment? Isn't that a good thing?

1. The schools and more so the teachers are under A LOT of pressure to show gap reduction. This is hard. Parents that educate their kids in school make the gap worse. Its better to for the teachers for the high performing kids to not perform so high.

2. The kids are bored because they are doing what they did in preschool. A bored first grader wiggles, talks to other kids and has trouble sitting still. When they get older they can doodle or daydream and no one cares.

3. The kid asks the teacher why he has to draw circles to figure out 2+2=4. The teacher is reminded how stupid the curriculum is that she has to dish out every day.