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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math and both TT and DOE public schools is garbage. One is not better than the other (unless you're going to a specialized school). So many kids from both TT and DOE are going to RSM and similar math schools. It's 100 percent a mix.

And folks saying that by 3rd grade kids should be doing long division and algebra?

I was learning multiplication tables in 3rd grade in the 80s, definitely not long division.

But my question is, why do kids in 3rd grade NEED to be able to do long division and algebra? Because kids in China, Korea and Singapore are?

Just curious developmentally, why. [/quote]

I don't think they need to do those things, FWICT they're mostly about juicing achievement test scores by rote algorithmic grinding through math from the next grade level and none of the kids I've talked to about it enjoy it at all.

Most standardized tests don't go much above grade level; the SHSAT only has math that a non-honors-track 8th grader would have covered by then (even the adaptive version reportedly won't change that), PSAT and SAT and ISEE Lower and Upper likewise, you maybe need to do a little material past your grade level for the Hunter test or as a 7th / 8th grade transfer taking the ISEE Middle but that's about it.[/quote]

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