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[quote=Anonymous][b]"Group the 10's into boxes representing 100's" -- there.. better for your little mind? [/b]

You just corrected what you erroneously wrote.  Why do you feel the need to insult the person who verbatim quoted your mistake?  You certainly take criticism of the math curriculum very personally, which I think is very odd for a parent.

I don't think the previous poster(s) were complaining about graphic representation, but were not satisfied with the breadth of the example.  I too read your example as grouping boxes of 10 x 100.  I've also extensively used Singapore math for years for my special needs child and have never found a similar example to represent a large number like a million.   This drawing of multiple ones and a hundred boxes is not Singapore Math that I have seen.  I've only seen box diagrams where you group 10's and 100's for addition and subtraction.  The method you describe is very confusing.

My younger non SN child is currently bored out of his mind with MCPS math and frankly after a hard day at work, topped off with dinner, laundry and combined with the enormous amount of time that a special needs child takes I am too exhausted to teach math every night.

I agree that the MCPS math curriculum is substandard.   At the same age range, in a week, I covered more and in more depth at home with my special needs child than I am seeing my younger child do in a month.   The math is just too simple, they go over the same concept repeatedly and it is inappropriate for the age range.  My non SN son's teacher also uses the sticks and dots nomenclature, which was very confusing.  I had a difficult time getting him to understand 100's, 10's and 1's the Singapore math way because he insisted "my teacher does not use those".

Feel free to call me little minded, stupid and talk down to me, I'm too tired to get insulted. :-)

I probably won't be back, I have a kitchen to clean, lunches to pack and laundry to fold before I hopefully get to bed at midnight to be back up at 6:00, so that I can start the same day all over again.[/quote]

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