Reply to Why are MoCo kids failing math exams?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Why are MoCo kids failing math exams?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]MCPS sux at teaching math.  Here are some problems I've observed.

A middle school teacher told me there are not enough textbooks for all the students....!!!

The county requires teachers use their tests and they apparently don't correspond to what the teachers teach.  They do not send county tests home (not allowed LOL) so you have to set up a meeting to get feedback and help your children understand where they fell short.  No feedback??!!!

They waste way too much time year after year on pointless concepts like stem and leaf plots.  Nobody uses these!  If ever anyone would need to (I did briefly in grad school) you can learn it in 5 minutes.  They take precious time away from teaching basic arithmetic skills to teach this nonsense year after year after year.

They do not teach or drill basic arithmetic.  Parents are told to do this at home.  Insanity.

My child's teacher teaches by downloading random worksheets free from the internet.  There is no progression of difficulty, so some are easy, some are hard, since they are from different sources and not part of a single vision for teaching a concept from start to finish.  That's why I would prefer a good old fashioned text book.  There is not enough practice given to master anything due to incessant testing.

They don't know what they are doing.  They tried to teach ALGEBRA to my 4th grader.  Figure out what x is:
420-x=400.
My kid was confused so I asked the teacher to clarify how she was teaching this so I wouldn't confuse my kid further with a different approach.  I asked, "Are you teaching them to isolate x on one side of the equation?" Answer: "No, they are not ready for that yet.  We are just teaching them to memorize that they should subtract the smaller number from the larger."  They teach it like it's a game with arbitrary rules.  Ridiculous.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics