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[quote=Anonymous]Just a vent, but I wish the kids would get textbooks or other instructional materials that could come home. Yesterday we got a guidance note from the school saying "hey, when helping your kid with math, don't say x, say y". The first two were fairly common sense, but the third was "don't talk about carrying and borrowing, talk about grouping and regrouping" . I honestly have no idea beyond the theoretical of what that means and how they've explained the mechanics of that concept to a seven year old. I'm all in favor of being consistent with what the kids are being taught in schools, but how am I supposed to do that if I don't know what that is? Even in my day the worksheets used to have some instructions/exemplars at the top. And what's really frustrating is when I use the terms the teacher wants, he has no idea, but when I say "do it this way, carry the one" it's like a lightbulb goes off and he gets it. [/quote]
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