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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS is the same. But the reason parents are looking for textbooks is that none of the crappy worksheets that come home come with exemplars so we can know how you’re teaching the kids. My kid asks for help with his math homework, and I start showing him the ways that I know how to do it, and he’s never seen that before

For example, one day the worksheet came home saying “using the circle and stick method, solve this problem”. It was some kind of basic addition, but I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. Google didn’t help, and I had to crowdsource on FB and one friend in NY had a slight clue what that was. It took us about five minutes to write out all the bits, when knowing the addition single digit pairs and how to carry would have taken 30 seconds. The worksheets should come with sample problems on the, if they’re going to teach these ridiculous methods. It’s not inspired teaching, it’s BS.[/quote]

I teach third grade. We don’t assign homework, but if we did I would recommend stopping and sending the homework back to school with a note letting the teacher know that your child did not understand how to do the assignment.[/quote]
Agree. Instead of you helping with the homework, the teacher needs to know your child is struggling. [/quote]

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