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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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.[/b]  It's busy work, plain and simple.[/quote]

[b]But the PP didn't say that you should do that.[/b][/quote]

Reread the original ridiculous response copied below.

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. [b]Group the 10's into 100 boxes, etc..[/b]. 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.
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[b]not that you draw 100K boxes, you just draw a box that represents 100K[/b][/quote]

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