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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We taught our kids old math (we were older Gen X parents and cut to the chase) and had teachers get upset with us. They said we were "damaging" our kids' ability to learn math. What it really meant is our kids no longer had the patience in class for drawing nine pineapples or stars to represent 3 x 3 = 9. They just wrote "9" and circled it, because we drilled the times tables up to 12 in them, and timed them at home doing simple, third grade multiplication. Here are ten problems, do as many as you can in one minute. We made it low stakes and fun. Our youngest is really good at math. By 7th grade, it's all old math, anyway.[/quote] New math stops when the workbooks no longer have color. [/quote]
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