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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montessori students gain valuable skills learning how to be independent and take care of themselves at an early age. The fine motor skills that are practiced in Montessori help the students with handwriting (they learn cursive starting in PK3). [/quote]

So they can write "I am failing math" in cursive?[/quote]

Anyone who thinks that knows nothing about how the Montessori math curriculum works. It’s incredible and Montessori kids end up several grade levels ahead of their traditional school peers with an excellent foundation in math.[/quote]

Except at Lee where most 3rd-5th graders are working below grade level in math.[/quote]

That certainly depends on how you measure it. If you go into the classroom and see those kids working on long division, algebra and how to determine area for their entire classroom you won’t think they are behind. If you look at the test scores for a school that is anti testing, sure you can conclude that. The depth of knowledge there can not be measured by PARRC.[/quote]

Oh please.  "Depth of knowledge" but still scoring a ONE on the PARCC?  Come on.  Even allowing for lack of computer skills and unfamiliarity with the style of math, people with even a little bit of knowledge should be able to get a 2.[/quote]

+100. “Working on” algebra and long division doesn’t mean these kids have a solid grasp on the fundamentals. Are they getting correct answers? Do they have a deep understanding of the concepts? Otherwise, it’s just optics, which appears to thrill parents of younger students. But if your child is truly struggling with these concepts, you see beyond this smoke and mirrors.[/quote]

Yes, yes, yes!!!! Montessori math is amazing. They absolutely have an understanding of the concepts way being traditional school. Every school should adopt Montessori metrics to teach math. Even what they do are 3 or 4 builds on what they do next to take them to understand advanced concepts in geometry for example. If there’s in’s thing I’m absolutely persuaded of it’s how well Montessori teaches math and gives kids a solid foundation. There is no reciting facts, it’s actually learning how the decimal system works and how numbers and shapes relate to each other, for example. Way beyond anything kids get that age elsewhere.[/quote]

Are you talking about the Montessori experience at Lee or just Montessori generally? We know a bunch of kids in 2nd and 3rd at Lee and while I'm not grilling them on math concepts, it's not my impression that this is what they are doing there. We looked at the school pre-Covid but this was not how they described their math curriculum, though that was for PK so it may not have been emphasized. And then I look at the PARCC scores and they seem low.

How am I supposed to know if what you describe as a Montessori approach to math (which does sound good to me) is actually how Lee does math? It sounds like an ideal that maybe is not accomplished all the time. What if Lee, specifically, is not doing a great job making the Montessori method work for the kids who attend? How do you assess this if you can't rely on a test like PARCC? The DCPCS oversight feels pretty lightweight to me.[/quote]

Yes I am taking about Lee - and Montessori in general. They are quite strict re following Montessori at Lee. Lamb, less so.[/quote]

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