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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I have to agree with what you are saying here. I feel the same confusion about how materials are organized. I thought my confusion stemmed from the fact that I was not raised in this country and I was used to a curriculum and a text book that completely followed the curriculum in my home country. This meant that a student could miss school for 2 weeks and know exactly what they had missed.

I agree the example about fractions that you gave. I am ok with teaching 5 ways of doing fractions - but I need for fractions to come after division has been taught to kids. And I want the whole unit taught in a cohesive manner - the 5 ways to do fractions + word problems with fractions + project with fraction --- and then I want it to segway into percentages and ratios...

Somehow this intuitive and systematic way of doing Math (as well as History if I may say so) - is missing.

When a text book is used to teach and parents are told that the students need to read pages 1 - 5 and work examples 1-3 and do exercises 1-10 --- it becomes easier for parents, students and teachers. [/quote]

Yes! This is the biggest benefit to tutoring/outside classes IMO. The child actually receives a cohesive math education and can draw deeper understanding from seeing the connections presented in a logical rather than haphazard way. [/quote]

Bad sequencing is one of the primary reasons why American kids are not doing well on international comparisions. American teachers are also the worst at making connections between concept. If a coherence curriculum/textbook was followed, then this would have been a big problem.

I was told by a quite informed parent that the 2.0 is modeled after Singapore Math. I hope he is right. I am planning on using that along when my child goes to K just to make sure his math education is adequate. [/quote]

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