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[quote=Anonymous]We went to a presentation at my son's school about the math curriculum. Part of the curriculum is for them to struggle. They DO have the tools they need; they just need to figure out how to use them. So, she should have learned in class, for example, to draw 25 boxes or people, and then start doling out the candy. She might have learned it with a smaller number, like 10, and now she's supposed to figure out how to scale it up to 100. I will say that my impression was that the presenter was an extraordinary teacher, and that without very patient, very good teachers, the children would not necessarily learn to be as self-sufficient as the curriculum intends them to be. I love the new math. I'm a mathematician, and the way they teach now basically teaches children all the mental "tricks" I've always used to manipulate large numbers in my head. It's a way of learning to make numbers do what you want them to do, however large or complex they are.[/quote]
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