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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What is "real" math? Math is math. There are different ways to teach it. What is multiplication ... it's adding up that number x number of times. What is our numbering system based on ... 10. You show an 8 yr old those two concepts. That is real math.

And you sound unhinged.
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When someone can't make a valid logical argument they stoop to personal attacks.  I'm not falling for low brow MCPS tactics and won't stoop to your level.

Physically drawing 100 boxes of groups of 10 to represent a thousand, and continuing with this exercise to represent a million is a giant time suck and of zero teaching value.  It's busy work, plain and simple.[/quote]

And that other PP was not personally attacking?  What makes you think I work for MCPS? What makes you think that the only people that see value in different ways of teaching math is working for MCPS?

I think perhaps you have a comprehension problem.  I didn't state to draw 100 boxes.  I said to start small, then eventually draw 10 boxes, where one box represents 100K.  That's not busy work, but a pictorial representation of how multiplication works.  My 6 yr old has started to understand this concept, taught to her by the older sibling who both memorized the multiplication table in 3rd grade and learned about boxes and dots under curriculum 2.0 (that's MCPS CC standards based curriculum) in previous years.    Older DC is now in compacted math.  [/quote]

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