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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About the best you can do to understand what MCPS does is go through the curriculum summaries by grade found here but be warned it's pretty vague:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/elementary/guides.aspx
Each grade is broken down by marking period and then subject, so scan through the math goals.

Or you can look at the actual standards and second grade includes:

Add and subtract within 20.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.B.2
Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

Multiplication facts are third grade:

Multiply and divide within 100.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.C.7
Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

From the MCPS brochures fact fluency isn't emphasized but from my recollection multiplication facts were drilled in second grade at least the first year of rollout when my DC was in 2nd.[/quote]

Thank you!!!!!!!

I am so sick of people spouting off the idea that common core doesn't expect mastery of math facts and fluency/memorization.  
Common core expects fluency with addition facts through 10 by the end of first grade and addition/subtraction through 20 by the end of second grade.[/quote]

But that is so SLOW and is not helping the advance or even the kids at grade level at all.  My child is in 1st and learned 2+2, 5+5, etc... in preschool.  I think it is ridiculous they are having these tests twice a week in 1st grade. It is 3rd quarter and they are working on sums up to 7 right now.   So many of the kids are so bored.  It takes them 30 seconds to do a 3 minute test and then they all draw on the back of the paper.

My oldest is now 14 and she learned facts up to 10 in  K at the same school.  By 1st grade she was moved to 2nd grade math because before common core, they actually tracked for math starting in 1st grade.  She is now in Pre-Cal as a freshman.  I have no idea how my youngest can even achieve the same thing at this point.  We do so much at home but there is zero enrichment in school these days.  They teach everyone to the lowest level so they can get better standardized test scores. [/quote]

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