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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EDM will help your child develop true number sense and flexible thinking--what real mathematicians have.  Feel free to supplement with more traditional methods and anything that helps your child develop automaticity with math facts--EDM never says not to do this.  My child had EDM through elementary, then switched over to more 'traditional' approaches.  Never had supplementation and is soaring in math.  It's a marathon, not a sprint.  Sometimes I miss some of the exploration my child had with EDM.  Math should not just be a slog or memorizing algorithms with no sense of 'why' they work.   Let your child enjoy this time and supplement as needed.[/quote]

Speaking as a professional mathematician I can tell you that I got to be one by spending my childhood free time reading old line math books and doing the problems in the book, not with some EDM crap.  This is also what my colleagues from Russia, China, and India did.

If you are the education student, I urge you to consider a new program where the people doing the research have ever talked with a real mathematician.

Thanks PPs for the recs for math programs -- I am hoping to offer them to my kids once they are ready since these days you can do more than read books.[/quote]

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