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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, sounds like you should go private. [/quote]

Bad news on that front... my child at highly regarded private is learning to tell time and count money now in 2nd grade.  He also learned to tell time in preschool, but had 100% forgotten it by now... so maybe, just maybe, 2nd grade is the[b] more developmentally appropriate time for this[/b].[/quote]
And the bolded applies to math in general for 99% of the kids.  This is part of the reason why many math educators (those who have an advanced degree in math and teach) do not recommend that Algebra be taught to young kids, some even argue that learning Algebra in 7th grade is not appropriate. I believe in SF they will no longer be allowing 8th graders to take Algebra as we know it.  Algebra will be broken down and taught throughout school.  MCPS curriculum also seems to have taken this route in terms of dispersing algebraic concepts starting from 1st grade.  I see it in my 2nd and 5th grader's math HW.

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/san-francisco-middle-schools-no-longer-teaching-algebra-1

"For years, all eighth-graders had to take Algebra 1. The vast majority, however, either failed or did poorly in the subject.  Under the new standards, the district is no longer taking a “drill and kill” approach to math. Instead, algebraic concepts will be woven into all math courses, beginning in kindergarten.

The goal is to get students fully prepared for Math 8, a hybrid pre-algebra class in eighth grade focusing on how linear functions and equations all fit together.

Students will then take a deep dive into Algebra 1 as high school freshman, which will also include transformational geometry and angle relationships."[/quote]

This is why homeschooling is so much better.  A child shouldn't learn math facts before K and then have to "relearn" them with kids in 1st.  My child has a 3 minute timed math sheet.  There is only 30 problems on it.  Each week, he comes home with a 30/30 and vast pictures on the back.  It looks like 1 minute spent on sheet and 2 minutes on coloring.  Why not just give him a sheet that takes him 3 minutes to do 30 problems instead?  When asked, I was told it was detrimental to the other kids to move some kids too far.  So dumbed-down math he will continue until compact math.  If I had the money I would homeschool.  [/quote]

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