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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know many parents don't supplement at home based on their beliefs and that is great.

If you do supplement, please share what you do. The reason I am curious about this is because my 1st grader gets pulled for enrichment math every day. There are four other kids who also get pulled. The worksheets these kids are given (and work independently) sometimes say "5th-6th grade" (other times, they are logic puzzles).  If x=5 and y=24, what is x/4xy.

I knew my daughter could do these problems, but I was suprised to learn that there were four other kids who were at this level.

Parents do not talk about supplementing AT ALL, even though we see each other a lot.  
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This does not sound like MCPS at all. Are you sure you didn't post to the wrong forum? The enrichment in math that MCPS offers is generally just having kids who are better at math do the later problems in the problem set. I have never, ever heard of a 1st grader get 5/6 grade math. My child is in 5/6 math now and is over halfway through the 6th grade Eureka curriculum and still hasn't gotten problems like you describe.[/quote]

My kid is in 4/5 and the enrichment packets are NCTM Problem of the Week problems from Algebra I and Geometry. They are presented as “explore and research “ not “you should know how to solve these the standard way”.

I helped my kid do a hard geometry problem. A classmate said “it was easy, I used a ruler.”
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