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Reply to "Ideas for a viable accelerated math approach to advocate for? "
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[quote=Anonymous]I support the existence of a math specialist at all elementary schools! That's great news, if it happens. My beef with elementary, when my kids were that age, was that teachers for the most part did not have a STEM background, and taught math really badly. I think this situation, which is very common in the lower grades, partly explains why children have such difficulties with math later on. When the basics aren't explained properly, how can we expect children to understand the rest? I supplemented with extra math, taught by me, all throughout my kids' elementary years. My kid with dyscalculia (a specific learning disability in math) was then tutored in high school as well, and he made it to AP Calc BC. My other kid did not need any extra tutoring and is in Calc BC as a 10th grader, having benefited from a placement in Algebra 1 in 6th grade. I really hope the math specialist thing will work out! [/quote]
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