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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my son was in 2nd grade last year, he got 1/2 credit taken off of one test question because the teacher didn't believe his strategy was an effective way to solve this problem.  It was something like 22+17= ?  He wrote 39 which is the correct answer.  He wrote that he added the ones column first and got 9 and then added the tens column and got 3 which is 39.  His teacher said he needed to use the strategy of rounding (22 down to 20 and 17 up to 20, etc).  Nowhere in the problem did it say you had to round.  Very frustrating for him and me to be told that he got the answer correct but the way he got it was "wrong."  [/quote]

When I was in elementary school, I had teachers who marked the answer wrong, even though it was correct, because I hadn't gotten the answer the right way. This was 35 years ago, so I don't think I can blame it on the Common Core.[/quote]

My son's math work for 1 problem is 4 pages long. 6th grade. He says he hates school every day now. [/quote]

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