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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If your school isn't requiring a lot of explaining on test questions now, I suspect it will now that schools know what the PARCC looks like.[/b]  My DC's homework does not require a lot of explaining but the assessments do (MCPS).  MCPS also does not give enough rote practice in homework for kids to master anything.  For me, rote practice and mastery of skill should come first, true understanding later (if it doesn't come naturally from the rote practice).  Certainly the explanations by the teacher can come alongside, but developing fluency/automaticity in the skills is essential for higher level math.  They don't seem to be teaching this way.  [/quote]

The schools knew what the PARCC tests would look like last year, when they field-tested them.

And nobody is arguing against developing fluency (which the Common Core standards explicitly call for). The point is that your idea seems to be to teach the algorithm first, and then at some point later, if people don't figure out on their own how it works, they can be taught how it works. That's what we've been doing in the US for decades, and it's very ineffective for very many people. Please read this article about teaching math; it's very good.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0[/quote]

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