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Here is what they are supposed to be working on, according to the curriculum guide:

Measurement and Data: Direct comparison—ordering objects by length; length—nonstandard units.

Number and Operations in Base Ten: Addition—1-digit to 2-digit numbers (concrete models and drawings); addition— 2-digit numbers to 2-digit multiples of 10 (concrete models and drawings); subtraction—2-digit multiples of 10 (concrete models and drawings).

Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Relationships and properties of addition and subtraction; fact families (sums through 10); finding the unknown in an equation.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/elementary/parent-guide-curriculum2.0-grade1-en.pdf

Is your child's class working on these things? If not, you should talk to the principal and the teacher.

Or are you complaining about the boredom of completing a 3 minute math test in 30 seconds and then having to wait a whole two and a half minutes until the test is over? Or that your child is doomed to failure in math because the math facts test in first grade only includes addition facts to 7? If your child completes high school in [u]on-grade level [/u]math, she will have completed Calculus A/B as a senior. Do you consider that "teaching to the lowest level"?[/quote]

My DC was very bored in second grade math because all they did was two digit addition with concrete models.  This stuff is tedious, a couple story problems to a page and no algorithms.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with introducing the standard algorithm to a child who has already spent some time modeling yet that was strictly forbidden in second grade.  Time exploring the algorithm has value and can be much more open ended and engaging than drawing pictures of rocks.

The goal of 2.0 is Calculus A/B for all by senior year but that is IF this experiment works out.  These kids who are spinning their wheels year after year and hating math may never get there, no matter how carefully the standards have it all mapped out.  [/quote]

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