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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a 5th grade VA teacher. Negative numbers are not a 5th grade concept, they are taught in 6th.[/quote]
Then the 3rd grade teacher who told us that was mistaken. (Like many parents, we've tried meeting at the beginning of each year with public school teachers to ask them for support for our child.) Also, truth be told, the 3rd grade teacher was a bit of an aberration (and was probably scared of negative numbers herself). For us, a slight majority of teachers was actually not opposed to our child using negative numbers, even though they would give otherwise very limited support. A positive example was the 4th grade teacher who invited our child to do the now unfortunately defunct [url=https://thinkport.org/labyrinth/]Lure of the Labyrinth[/url], which they had a lot of fun completing.

[quote=Anonymous]Wait, they introduce variables earlier than 5th. I mean I have seen my 2nd grader get problems like 5+x=10. I mean sure it is very basic, but still there. [/quote]
I was referring to the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) which - generally - describe "grade level" standards.  The [url=https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/3102/637982466053170000]5th grade requirements[/url] state: "Students will be introduced to expressions with a variable." and in fact I have not found the word "variable" in the SOL for 4th grade or below. I'd be happy to be [url=https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/mathematics/standards-of-learning-for-mathematics]proven wrong[/url].  If your 2nd grader uses variables someone is not going deep but high or whatever the contorted statement is.[/quote]

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