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[quote=Anonymous]Last year our kid's 4th grade teacher sent a panic email to all parents saying that everyone needed to work on multiplication facts since kids were struggling and not passing whatever assessment they were doing. While multiplication was introduced in 3rd grade, they sure as heck didn't drill it into them the way they used to when we were kids (probably too busy decomposing some ridiculous math problems and teaching kids the five steps of some crazy "strategy" instead of the straight forward stuff like basic math facts).

PS - this is in a "good" school with hardly any farms or ESOL.

PPS - a friend recently moved to another state, and she was called into her kid's school (4th grader) because the teacher couldn't figure out why the kid (whose mcps transcript indicated he was super smart) couldn't do basic math. In short, he was sort of doing math...but his decomposing and other 2.0 bizarro math notes on the worksheets were freaking out the teacher. After a semester at the new school, he's finally learned math "the right way" and is doing fine. Sadly, my mcps kids will never learn math "the right way." Sigh.[/quote]

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