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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Prealgebra isn't rocket science. I know this. I have worked as a rocket scientist, and I am married to an MCPS teacher. I see what he teaches to fourth graders under the old curriculum. There is absolutely nothing special about the old curriculum that makes it better at teaching math than 2.0. I am not saying 2.0 is the best curriculum ever, but I am saying that people who are trained to teach kids developed this curriculum in view of standards they are now required to meet. You should give the curriculum a chance.

What is frustrating me about this thread is that there are such sweeping generalization about how all MCPS elementary school teachers are unqualified to teach math and how horrible 2.0 is. I just don't get how you can have such disdain for people who are dedicated to teaching your kids. If you do, then you have a right to do something about it, including moving to Virginia where Common Core is not mandated or putting your kids in private if you hate MCPS so much. The people who show up everyday to teach your kids certainly don't do it for the money, even those that teach in private school. [/quote]

I don't want to move to Virginia. I've been happy with the MCPS teaching to date, and we've liked all DC1's teachers. I've been happy that he has been able to read at his level while some students are reading longer and harder books. I'm happy that there was grouping within the classroom so that he was able to work on writing, reading, and spelling at his own level, rather than being pressured to race through Harry Potter in kindergarten even though others could. And I'm happy that the kindergarten teacher identified him as being advanced in math, and that he has been able to enjoy doing accelerated math, which comes very easily to him. I am NOT happy at the prospect that as a 5th grader he will be repeating concepts learned up to 2 years ago, if acceleration is suddenly stopped. And I'm not happy at the prospect of him being in a math class in 5th grade where students who have been working at different levels are suddenly thrown into the same pool, which will make teaching anything to any level difficult.

Why is math so different than reading and writing? If differentiation is allowed (albeit in the same classroom) for these skills, why does math have to be treated differently? There are just as many complaints about students coming to college and having to take remedial English as math--but no one is suggesting only allowing elementary school children access to uniformly basic readers or preventing them from doing more advanced writing projects.[/quote]

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