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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So if the standard says that children should be able to multiply 3 digit numbers by the end of fourth grade, that means that in the classroom, what is going on is multiplying 3 digit numbers -- even if the children don't yet know how to count, or add.

I agree that COULD happen, but that isn't what the standards require. Good teaching means that you figure out where the children are, and shore up lagging skills before you can teach the next skills. 
 
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[b]But the standards say that all children at the grade level should be multiplying 3 digit numbers.[/b]  That is unrealistic for a child you cannot add.[/quote]

No, the standards do not say that.

OK, here is a real Common Core math standard for 4th grade.

CCSS.Math.Content.4.NBT.B.4 Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.

If a child is able to do this by the end of 4th grade, then the child has met that standard. If the child is not able to do this by the end of 4th grade, then the child has not met that standard. That's it.

Nowhere in the Common Core standards does it say that teachers must teach fourth grade math, and only fourth grade math, to all students, regardless of how much or how little the students are able to do.

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