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Reply to "anyone else have a 4th grader in MCPS who can't quickly rattle off multiplication facts?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My second grader knows her multiplication table up to 11 right now. I do feel that math is no longer a priority in MCPS. I have been really disappointed. So I've been the one to teach her.[/quote] Math is still a priority at the schools. Memorization at the expense of understanding the relationship between the numbers, however, is not a priority. Would you rather the schools no longer focus on the relationship between numbers and letting the kids develop good number sense but be able to rattle off the times tables super quickly without understanding the concept. This is false dichotomy. The difficulty of early school math is not with conceptual understanding but in remembering the math facts. Achieving automaticity in basic calculation will only facilitate this all important number sense when the numbers got bigger or involve decimals or fractions.[/quote]
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