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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry if I'm repeating something that was already noted (I didn't see it but I was skimming), but one thing that jumped out at me about the problems was how the units used mimic the units of money in coins, which they teach heavily in first and second grade. Without having learned multiplication and division, by second grade a child should pretty readily know that a quarter is 25 cents and there are four quarters in a dollar, which is equal to 100 cents. Translating that exercise to 100 units of candy being broken down into groupings of 25 students is a good check on whether a child had a true conceptual understanding of what they learned previously, or if they simply memorized 4 quarters = 1 dollar. If your child is struggling to translate what they learned previously like that, it may suggest some gaps in her earlier learning that need to be addressed.[/quote]
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