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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a mistake they made in the implementation of DL was not giving the Compacted 5/6 math students the "indoctrination" into Eureka math technique.  You have to do it their way.  Also, I think it is a mistake that they're grading students on aspects of this specific Eureka curriculum - like whether they can do a tape diagram.  If they can solve the fraction problem, it should not matter whether they can do a tape diagram.[/quote]
Finally the voice of reason! Your last sentence.[/quote]

Except that pedagogically, you make the kid show steps and do it the boring way on the easy stuff because they’ll need to know the process for the hard stuff.  In Algebra terms, I’ve had kids fight me on showing their work on one or two step equations because they did it in their head... but when we moved into multi-step equations, they were stuck.

Tape diagrams force kids to understand proportionality and orders of magnitude, and help also make that visual link between fractions and decimals... which is critically important in later years.[/quote]
I agree on importance on showing one’s work, but one can do it equation style. No need to draw pictures unless a kid really doesn’t understand. [/quote]

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