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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's the textbooks!!! No textbooks? Are you kidding me? My kids come home with "worksheets" with no explanation and that's supposed to take the place of textbooks???? They don't know how to learn. They don't know how to review. They don't know how to study. They are going to FAIL when they get to college.

This all started 7 or 8 years ago with curriculum 2.0, when they decided that math was like a blossoming flower and needed to be imagined in kids' heads instead of memorized. This is the only generation on earth that will NEVER need to know math -- they will ALWAYS have a calculator on hand -- and yet MCPS has decided to teach them "concepts" of math, in their heads, from every angle instead of simply teaching them to memorize math tools like multiplication tables.

Insane. .MCPS is so so so so bad now. I'm also a product of MCPS and have older kids who went through it before they changed everything. My youngest is really being shafted. Very disappointed in MCPS now.[/quote]

Are there online resources you found helpful? I guess memorizing 12x12 multiplication table can be done at home but I didn't want to try and show my sis new ways of doing stuff and confuse her. She's keeping up okay but I do want to make sure she get solid basic math foundation before all the fun stuff gets added on.

My parents' English isn't too great and they are pretty out of the loop on the nuances of public school so any pointers would be appreciated![/quote]

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