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If I were older than 9 doing math this way, I might agree.  But not for a 6/7 yr old.  BTW, I am in IT, and when I try to explain to my ES kids what I do for a living, my explanation is long, much longer than how I would explain it to an adult.   Why?  Because  young kids don't understand much about computers or business, just like they have limited exposure to number sense.[/quote]

This is not how math works.  Math is all about simplification.  You're not teaching the right principles from the start.[/quote]
I gather you don't have older kids?  I also have a 5th grader.  They use the old fashioned algorithms now to do computation. They do learn to use the most efficient way by 4th or 5th grade.  Look, I do understand your frustration.  I am Asian, math person, in IT.  My older DC was a CC math guinea pig at the start of 2nd grade in our school district.  I couldn't understand why DC was learning math that way.  Seemed ridiculous.  I had similar opinions as you.  Both my DC's had the same 2nd grade teacher.  Between this older DC and my younger DC (now in 2nd grade), it looks like they made some changes to the math worksheets.  They seem a bit better.  I totally get what they are trying to teach young ES kids now about number sense.

BTW, older DC is  now in an accelerated math program at school.

I don't know what school district you are in, but it seems to me that some districts, and even school by school (maybe even teacher by teacher) have different types of math worksheets.  Some are better than others.

Your DC is in 1st grade.  Again, I don't know what school district you are in, but I am in mcps and on-grade math track will have most kids taking Calculus by 12th grade, with advanced kids taking it in 11th.[/quote]

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