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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you give examples of the kinds of problems your first grader has been given? My first grader is currently doing math mountains and word problems, not complex stuff for a parent to figure out at all.[/quote]

Here are a couple of examples she gets from school.  This is the kind where I go "what the f--- ?" On the bottom one I think they were told by the teacher to use only two numbers, not three.  She wouldn't have thought of this herself.

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[/quote] The first one I would have skipped and told the teacher we decided not to do it because it was stupid. The second one should have been 3+3=6  6-3=3 I would think. [/quote]

On the first one, it looks like your DD does not really understand what is meant by doubles, count on (a new term to me), and then of course double minus or plus one.  It could of course be that she does understand, but the worksheet is asking the child to do two different things with each problem at the same time: solve the problem and identify what type of problem it is. And adds in the confounding problem of assigning colors to the type of problem.  I could see where a child would have difficulty with shifting gears for each problem.  Possibly okay if there had been sufficient build up--that is, plenty of exercises where the child had only to identify the three types of problem--by colors that were used consistently for each type--without solving.
them.

The second pag is a bit faint but it looks like she got it right.  Bravo!  [/quote]

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