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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and kids in K-2 definitely use pencils. So do grades 3-8 in my school. We had an administrator who wanted us to move away from all pencils, paper, scissors, coloring, etc. but ultimately he lost his job and we returned to a more balanced approach. It makes sense to have students practice math, for example, by writing or drawing out problems but also to play some engaging math games. Both are necessary and beneficial today. [/quote]

We understand you as teachers have a tough job when parents shove iPads at their young toddlers or babies to keep them entertained if there is even a minute break in life. The kids you see in class have no attention spans.

But I promise you digital math games are either boring or [b]far[/b] less useful than paper worksheets. I have let my kids play Prodigy for fun. They had to do XtraMath for math fact practice and ST Math for various schools. Prodigy didn't teach them much, XtraMath was merely tolerated, and they despised ST Math with all that was in them. The only one that remotely helped them with anything was XtraMath for math fact recall, and flashcards would have been possibly more effective.[/quote]

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