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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone is an expert in math instruction now, I see. Do you think you can go to the supermarket and have your kid count 10 apples once and think he's got it? That's now how it works. They do need to do it again and again and again. Later then need to learn to add and subtract rapidly - through memorization. When they are older they also need to memorize their times tables.

These are the facts of math fluency. For parents who are new to school, this is how it works. Like memorizing sight words, there are lots of concepts in school that the kid has to memorize and repeat ad nauseum for the fluency that is needed later for higher level concepts.[/quote]

Well, everyone is a bit of an expert in their own child, no? And not every child needs the same number of visits to the supermarket before they know how to count to ten. Teachers seem to wait until the nauseam level has been reached for all children before moving on, even if some of them have been covered in their own vomit for a while. Some kids will be nauseated after counting to ten only ten times. [yes, I took your latin image way too far]

Now parents are home and our first world problem is that we don't like watching their kids looking bored and unexciting because they're long past the ad nauseam threshold. [/quote]

You will receive your M.Ed. in the mail shortly.[/quote]
No need - only working towards a "best mom ever" mug.[/quote]

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