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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Testing solutions refers to the Thinking or Academic Success Skill that is currently being taught in 3rd grade (in all subjects). They relate those critical thinking skills to every content area. There is no "right" answer-he needs to explain how testing multiple solutions while doing his work is helping him to learn the current math content.

Curriculum 2.0 is all about the infusion of these skills into academic content. I like that a lot.

I work in MCPS and for the record to the OP and PPs, the previous curriculum did not provide homework either, that has always been up to the teachers to create based on their own students.  There are lots of resources provided to teachers with this curriculum.  It isn't scripted like the previous curriculum was, so there are less worksheets, but there are resources provided, so I disagree with the PPs.[/quote]

Can you expand on what resources are provided in the C2.0?  In looking at my DC's classwork, it seems that most of the work done in class is pulled by the teacher from publicly available web-based teacher resources that have nothing to do with MCPS.  Sometimes the stuff is appropriate to the grade level/skills being taught, sometimes not.

I think it's not a grade-appropriate expectation from the writing/language perspective to expect 3rd graders to "explain how testing multiple solutions helps you learn math."  A kid would have to be pretty sophisticated linguistically to explain this at this age.  Also, I think that this thread is but one illustration of how the curriculum has become infused with teaching/pedagogical buzzwords to such an extent that it is actually an obstacle to student and parent understanding.  It's educational bureaucratese that doesn't belong in the classroom.  As an editor, I would be slashing my big red pen through that kind of wording.  Plain English, please!  Math is hard enough having to learn to translate the plain English into commonly accepted "math" conventions (like being able to construct an equation from a word problem) -- don't make it harder than it has to be.  [/quote]

I completely agree with you!  This type of written explanation of math is so far beyond what is fair to expect of a 3rd grader.  The pedagogical buzzwords abound in this new 2.0 era.  Hard enough for an educated parent to understand, let alone kids.  Let math be math.[/quote]

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