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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post is interesting because mine has been asking me if I think other schools taught different/more math than what they had b/c “everyone” in class seems to already know what is being taught.  If that is indeed the case, I’d rather mine drop as that is just asking for heartache.  What happened to learning math in math class? [/quote]

I taught MS math in FCPS at an AAP center that had multiple feeder elementary AAP centers. Almost without exception, my strugglers in Hon Math 7 came from one particular small ES center. Every year, even before Covid, AAP kids from this school were just missing basic math knowledge. (When I talked to the kids from this school who were successful students---they all went to Russian school of math, AOPS, Kumon, etc.). For whatever reason, this one FCPS ES did not teach math well. The strugglers always had had good grades in ES math and didn't understand why my class was so hard! Well, they were shaky on their basic multiplication facts and couldn't do anything with fractions!
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My 8th grader has been helping friends with math for a couple of years. Like you said, it's foundational stuff, like multiplication, division, and fractions. Once they understand these, the MS classes become so much easier. She does say though that some kids have no math sense, and there doesn't seem to be anything she can do to get through to them.[/quote]

Are you saying fluency when you say foundational?  That some kids have it down more and can do problems faster? [/quote]

Not just fluency, but basic conceptual gaps in what things are, and what these operations mean in that context. Fractions seem to be really hard, for instance. Like why is it that when you multiply a fraction (less than one), it gets smaller, but when you multiply whole numbers, they get larger. I'm supposed to try and explain absolute value to her friend, because she's just not getting it, despite seeing it from what, 5th grade?[/quote]

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