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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
Reply to "anyone else have a 4th grader in MCPS who can't quickly rattle off multiplication facts?"
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[quote=Anonymous]Drills and mastering the facts before you move on is not repetition. Repetition is doing a little of something, doing something else, coming back and doing a little of the original thing again, and repeating this process over and over again for several years. MCPS is repeating the act of verbally explaining the concept again and again. This doesn't help kids that don't get it. It bores kids that do get it. It does nothing to help either group develop mastery of the facts. In 3rd grade 2.0 the math classes start writing sentences and paragraphs to explain basic facts. Some teachers even correct the grammar. The way to get an ES in math now is to write stories about a basic math fact, doesn't matter if you can't do multiplication facts with enough ease to do higher order math. Very sad and very stupid. [/quote]
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