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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op again. I think the single most disappointing part was that my daughter could not properly do two and three digit addition when a ten or hundreds carried over. It was obvious she had never been taught and had no idea how to do this on paper.[/quote]

In FCPS/VA this is an end-of-second grade skill. Even at the private we are switching our kids to (does Singapore Math) it's a beginning of second grade skill.[/quote]

It was on the iready practice test Dh found online. The question seemed pretty reasonable. It was like 42 + 19. DD didn’t know how to carry the 1. There was also a 3 digit addition problem she also had trouble with. I am glad this is not something you should know in first grade and she isn’t behind.

All I know is it went from counting to 100 to testing on simple algebra, balancing money, solving word problems and asking about logic that she had never been exposed to before. [/quote]

If you're this worried about it, then get some math workbook - any math workbook - or a homeschool math curriculum and do practice together over the summer. Or do 1st grade Beast Academy.

In FCPS you have three options: 1) Be happy with the gappy, slowly paced (FCPS math chair literally said she thought it was too slow) curriculum. 2) Supplement at home/via tutoring. 3) Go private.[/quote]

I’m not really worried. She is in first grade. I’m more disappointed in FCPS and glad I have discovered this at a young age. I at least now know that I will need to supplement.[/quote]

FCPS deserves criticism for lots of things but this isn't one of them.  The math you are referencing is not first grade math skills per the state of Va.  If you want to see what the standards are they are easy to find.  Iready does as harder questions because it is an adaptive tests and if your student does well they will see those higher level concepts.

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/mathematics/standards-of-learning-for-mathematics[/quote]

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