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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not PP - but I think the issue is that there are[b] a lot of kid in K-2 math who are learning nothing and not being challenged.[/b]  The premise of 2.0 and Common Core is that these kids will get deeper more challenging problems using the basic concepts covered at grade level - but the reality is that this is not happening.  And to be honest - you can only go "so deep" into addition and subtraction even with multistep word problems that use logic.    [/quote]

[b]If they are learning nothing and not being challenged, then they already learned it somewhere else. Where and why?[/b]
If they didn't already learn it somewhere else, then they are learning something. Maybe not as much as their parents might want, but something.

Another question is -- what is the goal here? The "appalling K-2 math" is going to get on-grade-level kids to Algebra I in 8th grade and Calculus I in 12th grade, and accelerated kids to Algebra I in 7th grade and Calculus I in 11th grade. How many years of college math do you think kids should get in high school?[/quote]

It is not uncommon for children coming from Montessori to be fully comfortable with addition and subtraction through 100.  There are many children who go to Montessori programs in this county.[/quote]

OK. But there is more to K-2 math than addition and subtraction through 100. And how many is "many children"? Enough for MCPS to adjust its whole district-wide math curriculum?[/quote]

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