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Agreed...  they have this method of sticks and dots for teaching math.  We where having a discussion at home and [b]the dollar amount million came up and my 8 year old asked how many sticks and dots that would be. [/b]

I just couldn't believe this is what math is not for primary grades in MoCo.  Pathetic[/quote]

You missed a great teaching point here.  You ask the 8 yr old, what does the stick represent?  He should answer "10".  You then ask, "How many 10's would make a million?"  You start small... "how many 10s in 100" then move up from there.  Group the 10's into 100 boxes, etc...  Then you show how "10" - 100,000 boxes  (not that you draw 100K boxes, you just draw a box that represents 100K) make one million, and that is multiplication.[/quote]

Are you kidding me???  You seriously think this is a worthwhile exercise to do and that any real math is being taught????   This is something an English major would suggest.  What an enormous waste of time.

You sound like an MCPS shill go back to writing your crap Curriculum 2.0 worksheet that you will send out to the classrooms tomorrow.[/quote]

It actually is real math to show graphically that there are ten ones in one ten, and ten tens in one hundred, and ten hundreds in one thousand, and ten thousands in one ten thousand, and ten ten thousands in one hundred thousand, and ten hundred thousands in one million -- so how many ones in one million? and how many tens in one million?

Or, if graphical displays explained by words is too "English major" for you, you can write it 10x1=10, 10x10=100, 10x100=1,000, and 1x?=1,000,000 and 10x?=1,000,000 -- but I wouldn't start out that way, especially since your son's understanding of multiplication may not yet be solid (or may be absent altogether, given that he's talking about "sticks and dots" instead of "tens and ones").

(No, I don't work for MCPS. I have gone through Singapore Math books with my 8-year-old, though, and stuff like this is very Singapore Math (or perhaps Singapore "Math", according to your definition).)[/quote]

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