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[quote=Anonymous]If you really have made sure that your child knows their math tables addition, subtraction, multiplication and division up to 12 then good for you. In the new curriculum, there is very little indication that kids don't know their tables until they run into problems. The parents see a P on everything and think their kid knows their math facts. The 2.0 assessments are heavily focused on the 2.0 strategies not foundational math skills. A child will present that he knows 4X7=28 because he is expected to show work that breaks it into 2X7 = 14 and 2X7= 14, 14+14=28. The teacher marks him as proficient in multiplication. Later on, the kid really doesn't know that 4X7=28. Parents have no idea. Teacher doesn't know either because she doesn't teach 4th or 5th grade math. In 5th grade, he can only quickly multiply by 2, 3, 5 and maybe 4 so he needs to decompose but there are so many other steps and larger numbers in the problem he is solving that he makes more mistakes.

In 2.0, its even more important to make sure your child knows math facts and traditional math from practice at home then in the previous curriculum. [/quote]

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