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I'll bite.  Because there's more than one way to learn.  Some people pick math up much more quickly dealing with money than they do studying place value.  In theory you need to have a [i]deep understanding[/i] of place value to understand money, yet [b]you can send a four-year-old to a snack bar with $2 and they know if they've been short changed[/b].  Sometimes you need to understand to do, sometimes you need experience to understand.  The current curriculum has no regard for the latter.[/quote]

Is this from your personal experience? I don't think that either of my kids, at age 4, could have thought, "I had $2.00, and the popsicle was $1.46, so I should have gotten 54 cents in change, but they only gave me 50 cents." Now I could have said, "You should get back two quarters and four pennies," and they would have been able to do that, but that's not really math, that's just coin recognition.

I would be interested in the thoughts of kindergarten and first-grade teachers who actually taught kindergarteners and first-graders about money under the old curriculum. As I recall, the kindergarten teaching was only coin recognition; I don't remember what the teaching was in first grade.[/quote]

Yep, personal experience, not all kids, but many can.  (I mentioned snack bar because often those are set up with round numbers and no tax.)[/quote]

Well, maybe four is on the young side, but second grade is absolutely on the LATE side! What about teaching coins in Kindergarten? (5/6) and continue it in First grade (6/7). It's just an example of public schools prolonging concepts that could be taught a year earlier. No wonder kids are bored and restless in class, they aren't learning a thing.  [/quote]

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