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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think the OP was saying that the curriculum was hard and everyone is getting a tutor because they are struggling. I think she was saying everyone is tutoring because they have no idea what the kids are doing, the kids aren't doing anything, and/or the sheets that come home don't make much sense.

The part about MCPS that baffles most parents is that there is no rationale organization to the way they present materials. What is going on is that they pick a very few concepts and cycle back again and again repeating them. They don't go deeper they just skate the surface from a different direction. You'll see a week of word problems that are easy but they need to be done a specific way. The next week you'll see easy fractions and then they disappear. The next week will be some simple division and then it ends. The following week will be back to basic fractions but presented as if the child never learned fractions in a new way.

There is validity that there are multiple ways to teach a child a concept and some kids click onto one method more than others. However, just because there are five ways to do something it doesn't mean that there is value with every kid doing it five different ways at the same time. They also present each way as if the kid doesn't know anything about the concept which is very stupid.

The only challenging part for a parent is setting aside what the best way to do the problem and replacing it with what way does MCPS want the kid to show it this week. Its all pretty easy but done this way it does zero to create any advanced number sense for kids.

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