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[quote=Anonymous]If you really want your kid to excel at math, forget the insidious Common Core number sense stuff and knowing math facts cold in 4th and 5th grade. That's shooting for math mediocrity. Focus on living the math, using it to power strange and wonderful science and architecture experiments of your kid's own design. Encourage your kid to enter math and science competitions s/he prepares for with your help as soon as possible, to play chess well, and to design intricate video games. Love the math, celebrate the math, whip out calculators, slide rules and abacuses everywhere you go and shout out the answers, sing them if you dare. I got an 800 on the SAT quantitative section as a 10th grader, a 5 on BC Calculus, and a degree from MIT. And nobody drilled me in math facts at any point in the days when public schools didn't shove kinds onto math learning conveyor belts. Fight back and win. [/quote]
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