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[quote=Anonymous]"Just moved to Mass and while we knew the schools were better up here I had no idea how horrible the math was in MCPS. Both kids easily got into compacted math, ES grades when ES grades were randomly given, very high MAP and PARCC scores, straight As in accelerated MS math class - completely failed the placement exams for math up here. Neither kid had ever taken a cumulative multi-page math test before this one." My MCPS kids are in college now, in STEM subjects, and doing fine but they still don't actually know their multiplication tables. Believe it or not. Oh they can figure them out relatively quickly but as far as knowing them without thinking, nope. This would certainly hurt their ability to pass a pre-algebra math test (think fractions, percentages) even though they had no problem with Calculus. They also had lots of problems with factoring quadratic equations and doing geometry with only a week or so doing proofs.[/quote]
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