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Today he went home with pairs of numbers for which he had written the signs for "greater than" or "less than". As in 17<53... Homework was breaking down single digits like 7 into 2+5, or 3+4... Gaaah! He could have done this 2 years ago. It's insane.

To clarify, I don't have much of a problem with the curriculum, although it could definitely be way more challenging (I went to school in France and the UK, and experienced much more rigorous content). 
I do have a problem with the seemingly purposeful brakes to acceleration and differentiation put in place with 2.0. I talked to the teacher at the beginning of term, knowing this would be problem, but there are limits to what she can do.[/quote]

This is very interesting to me. So are you saying that it's insane that 1st graders are doing addition, because your child learned addition in preschool? My child is in 1st grade also and it seems age-appropriate to me to be doing addition, subtraction, and word problems. I'm not trying to antagonize, just to assess what others think is age-appropriate.[/quote]

My child is in Pre-K and doesn't even recognize all her numbers.  There is no way she could do the work described above.  The work seems appropriate for 1st grade to me.  But I guess we'll see as we get there.[/quote]

I agree that it's age appropriate.  I think my child could go faster but it's fine.  I have no problem with the 1st grade curriculum and no one was acting out in my child's class.  I also observed my 3rd graders class.  My 3rd grader has always found math relatively easy but again I thought the math was age appropriate.  And the reading in both classes was gear.  A lot of that is the teacher.  She chose the books and she was the one adding extra information and challenge.  [/quote]

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