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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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But the standards say that all children at the grade level should be multiplying 3 digit numbers.  That is unrealistic for a child you cannot add.[/quote]

You are completely correct about that.   If you have a child who is working below grade level, then the grade level standards will be too hard for him or her, until he or she is brought up to speed on the standards covering lower level skills.

Yes, you are correct.   Grade level standards ARE too hard for kids who are below grade level.

However, the point of a standard is to tell what a child SHOULD be able to do by the end of the year.   So if a child isn't at the standard, it is important that teachers and parents know that this child isn't at the grade level standard.

If you had "standards" that were variable (some kids so this and some do that) then pretty much everyone would be at grade level, which would be meaningless to teachers, parents and students.   It would essentially be an "effort" standard.

By the end of fourth grade students will.... know more math than they did at the start of the year.

That's not a standard.   It's just a description of improvement.[/quote]

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