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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do they even teach math facts in school anymore?  I've had to teach all of them to both of my kids.  They seem to give timed tests on facts that they never actually teach.  It's bizarre.[/quote]

I spent half the year helping out the third grade at my daughter's school and I would say that I noticed the same thing you did.  They give timed tests on the facts, but they really don't spend any class time trying to get the kids to memorize them.  It seems to me that the only kids who get them memorized are the ones whose parents work with them on it at home.[/quote]

DC's second grade class spent time in class working on memorizing addition and subtraction facts.  I only know because DC got in trouble for goofing-off when he should have been participating.  Some of the math time is spent in stations, where the kids rotate through different tasks.  On of the tasks was flash cards with addition and subtraction facts.  The kids work independently (in my kid's case, he didn't really work but played around with the kids in his group).  We know how he is and the school format, so we taught him multiplication and division through the 12s before 3rd grade.  [/quote]

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