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[quote=Anonymous]Its actually very common in Montessori preschools to teach multiplication and division in preschool-K. The concept itself is not hard -just adding sets of numbers or pulling out sets of numbers. There has been research that US education is very backwards by holding back math concepts that young children can easily grasp while pushing reading skills that are not developmentally appropriate at young ages. Both my kids were doing multiplication and division by K, understood the concepts and were bored in MCPS math. When my son was four, he understood fractions. He didn't learn them in school and I never taught him but he had seen them on the Wii video games that he played. I caught him doing his older siblings math worksheet homework because older DS thought is was boring baby work and younger DS could do it.

Skipping a year in math will not help your child because MCPS math is so terrible. The math component of 2.0 is just criminally bad. Worksheets full of errors. Garbled concepts either poorly convened or in some cases just wrong. Other issues include a ridiculous perverse way of obscuring the balance and systemic qualities of math. It truly was written by people who couldn't do in math in school and never learned it.

You have to supplement math at home if you have a math oriented kid or just wait until they reach high school for them to enjoy math in school. [/quote]

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