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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are all you parents doing this with/for your kids anyway? You wouldn't be helping them if they were doing it at school.

I will supplement in other ways that are organic to our home life, but I'm not helping either my 5th or 2nd grader with ST math. The whole point is for them to be able to balance the logic and the math skills on their own. My second graders who is great and memorizing and following directions finds the logic portion/deciphering rules without words challenging, and my 5th grader who has great large concept skills finds the method easy but sometimes the skills hard.

Seems like that's the point of the program. To challenge kids to think a different way than their natural preference. [/quote]

The "point" of the program is fine and good; my first impression was "oh, this is so clever." Unfortunately, the implementation is a freaking nightmare. It could have been a good program, but it is truly bad. Once you realize it has absolutely no value and will turn your kid away from math and school (and penguins), you will literally do anything just to make the dang penguin die. I am a huge rule follower, but I finally told the teacher the mindless repetition was not worth my the time suck it became.  As another DCPS parent with way too many years of the ST Math hell under my belt, I think the ABANDON ALL HOPE poster was right about this one. [/quote]

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