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Past 2nd grade, it's time to memorize the facts.  You'll mostly likely need to do this at home b/c in my experience, schools don't want to "waste" time on low level learning like memorization.  God help all of those kids whose parents don't do this at home.  They'll still be skip counting and drawing pictures in 5th grade.[/quote]

But OP is specifically asking about first and second grades.

As for kids still skip counting and drawing pictures in fifth grade -- that's an empirical question. Are kids actually doing that? If so, how many? And has the proportion increased, decreased, or stayed the same since the introduction of Curriculum 2.0?

My anecdotal experience with two kids in first and second grades at the same ES, one pre-2.0 and one with 2.0: Pre-2.0, there was no math facts practice in class; the school told the parents that it was the parents' responsibility to practice math facts with their kids at home. With 2.0, the kids did lots of math facts practice in class.[/quote]

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