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[quote=Anonymous]Its ridiculous. I have a 3rd grade son who scores in the upper 230s on map-m and got ES grades last year because he would write extra formulas on the back of the sheet when he was bored. When he started to learn how to draw cartoons he switched to doodling cartoons and then received Ps. He's never once gotten a question wrong and his teacher confirmed that he is great in math. Since the extra formulas that he was doing wasn't anything new to him (he already knew it obviously) and was just passing the time the ES wasn't worth much. I told him it was up to him what he did with his spare time. There is no value in my mid in just demonstrating to the teacher that all the kids know more than what she is teaching.

This last report card he received an I in math. I called the teacher. She said he was one of the best math students in the class but his writing on the new 2.0 explain your deeper thinking sections wasn't as strong. He isn't using enough descriptive language and storytelling in his explanations. His answers tin the math writing sections are brief and just enough to answer the question. She knows he can write better because of how he does in the language sections.

WTF??? I have put up with the math curriculum being pathetic. DS learned more in preschool than MCPS. We teach math at home and just accept that you can't get a math education from MCPS. I'm in the majority rather than minority on this one in our school. I know that DS sits there board out of his mind as some teacher imagines who deeper we can go with 1+1. However, now he has to pretend that he is taking math when its really just an extension of writing. Lovely.

If I had know how stupid MCPS is, I would never have moved here. [/quote]

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