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Reply to "No doing well with Common Core, but we'll with Singapore math"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Who has change in their pocket anymore? My kids (not yet in second grade) don't know how to count change because they've never seen it. They can't tell a quarter from a penny. [/quote] That's not the only problem. They couldn't sum the prices either. Like 25c+50c+10c. They couldn't add. I should have asked their teacher to come in and witness this. Maybe she would show them how to use doubles, 50+50-15 because that makes just as much sense.[/quote] This was a problem a few years ago when I was working with some teachers in a DCPS elementary school as a guest teacher. I asked them what they wanted me to address with their students, and they all wanted money sense. Not because they couldn't add or subtract double-digit numbers, but because they couldn't understand the real-life application: with credit and debit cards, few of them has ever seen their parents make change![/quote]
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