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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SOLs are very similar to common core math in the sense that it focuses on teaching number sense. It's a far superior method to how we were all taught in school (where we basically memorized the algorithms but didn't actually learn math). [/quote]

I disagree. The schools do focus on number sense which is good but they spend precious little time on mastery. So my son learned a myriad of ways to divide but spent very little time on any one way. If math builds on itself, you have a shaky foundation. He and many other students have to go to tutoring to get what it lacking- mastery of an algorithm that works.[/quote]

The new math is still far superior to the way we were taught.[/quote]

At least I can do basic math unlike my 5th grader who finished ES without being able to divide accurately. Time at Mathnasium helped fix that and other basic math issues. Maybe I should send the bill to the board of education since they taught him lots of "strategies" but not one way he could use and get the answer. They spent 3 days on long division and that's it. He was behind when he started middle school at a private school. [/quote]

This was not our experience.  DS learned both short and long multiplication and short and long division in 3rd grade AAP math.[/quote]

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