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[quote=Anonymous]I have a masters in engineering, and I am a lawyer.  I vote for math reasoning being most important, because without the underlying logic, you cannot make a very effective argument.

I have a first grader in MCPS.  She brings home her math worksheets with no problems wrong.  The advanced stuff gets sent home for us to do with her as "extra".  Frankly, I work full time, and barely have enough time to help her get the real homework done.   That being said, she has learned concepts in first grade curriculum 2.0 that I never learned in first grade.  I am not worried whether she'll be challenged.  Right now, I just like that she has a feeling of accomplishment in mastering first grade.  She's eager to try the next thing because she feels like she can do it.

I have spent some time speaking with the teachers at my daughter's school about 2.0.  They don't love it, but the do like the new State Common Core Curriculum standards it meant to satisfy.  The Common Core is meant to give the understanding that the prior curriculums did not because the prior curriculum was centered on learning what the answer was, not how it was arrived at.

It's not like they have stopped teaching our kids by introducing 2.0.  They are still teaching our kids.[/quote]

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