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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can teach your child to add and subtract in any ways you like. If their school teaches a different method, so much the better. Learning more than one way to solve problems is like exercise for the brain.

Best practices say to grade based on arriving at the correct answer via any grade level-appropriate method. (Drawing 35 dots and then 51 dots and then counting them one by one would not be appropriate for any grade above K.)[/quote]

School is not teaching it. They are looking at place value pictures (Given a picture of squares, how many 10s and 1s are there). For equations they are still doing 12-3 and kids are counting to add and subtract.

So I am wondering how schools are teaching it so I can do it the correct way nationally. I don’t really want to wait for them to learn it in 3rd grade (which is when our curriculum says it will happen). I also want to know how other schools are doing it because I don’t really trust our curriculum. I think we are behind. [/quote]

Using place value pictures is how they start in 2nd grade. They move on from there [/quote]

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