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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD has always done well in math, but this year suddenly she's saying she hates it.  She brought home some worksheets that they were doing in class, and they seemed very confusing to me.  For example, one was a word problem that required division, although it didn't use that word.  It said someone had 100 pieces of candy and wanted to give five to each person in the class, and there are 25 people in the class.  How many would each person get?  Another said someone had 50 apples and wanted to put 2 in each basket, and so on.  My DD had meticulously drawn out one hundred pieces of candy and then grouped them into 5's and done the whole thing that way...[b]she actually got the answers right, but complained that it was hard.[/b]  She has never learned either division or multiplication in school, and last year worked mostly with numbers less than 20, so this seems too difficult to me.  Is your child doing work like this in 2nd?  Do you think they could do it, if they did have it?  This is public.  [/quote]

So what's the problem?  She could, in fact, do the problem.  It was challenging.  So what?  What's the problem?  You want her to just get easy problems? [/quote]

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