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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. [b]It is 3rd quarter and they are working on sums up to 7 right now. [/b]  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]

Here is what they are supposed to be working on, according to the curriculum guide:

Measurement and Data: Direct comparison—ordering objects by length; length—nonstandard units.

Number and Operations in Base Ten: Addition—1-digit to 2-digit numbers (concrete models and drawings); addition— 2-digit numbers to 2-digit multiples of 10 (concrete models and drawings); subtraction—2-digit multiples of 10 (concrete models and drawings).

Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Relationships and properties of addition and subtraction; fact families (sums through 10); finding the unknown in an equation.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/elementary/parent-guide-curriculum2.0-grade1-en.pdf

Is your child's class working on these things? If not, you should talk to the principal and the teacher.

Or are you complaining about the boredom of completing a 3 minute math test in 30 seconds and then having to wait a whole two and a half minutes until the test is over? Or that your child is doomed to failure in math because the math facts test in first grade only includes addition facts to 7? If your child completes high school in [u]on-grade level [/u]math, she will have completed Calculus A/B as a senior. Do you consider that "teaching to the lowest level"?[/quote]

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