It's not "normal" but it's not really abnormal either. I have two kids a year apart in school, both bright at math. One doesn't mind that the questions are sometimes written incorrectly and that he has to do the same problem five different ways. The other is fine, too, but uses the b word (boring) more.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the writing that makes kids frustrated and angry. They will ask you, "2+4=? Explain your answer" and then they need to write several sentences. Every kid with even a little competence in math is thinking, WTF?

OP here. Yes, that has been an issue, and my child actually does otherwise enjoy writing.
How about pace of class overall? Does the pace feel slow and repetitive to the point of madness to many kids? Or just some? Trying to understand if a normal, somewhat bright in math child should feel furious on a daily basis about being trapped in math class.

No - I don't think it's normal for a "normal, somewhat bright in math child" to feel furious on a daily basis about math class. I would describe my son the same and he is definitely not furious about math...and he is an intense kid in general.

When our daughter started saying she hated math and it was boring we started looking for outside enrichment. In 3rd grade she started taking a 2 hour Saturday math class. At least she knows it’s not math as a subject she hates it’s just math at school that’s boring. And I do think that learning the different methods is important and valuable but it’s too slow for a significant chunk of kids and real consistent enrichment is not happening. I also don’t think kids should be held back in math because their verbal skills aren’t up to a particular level of explanation. There should be checks to see if they understand the underlying concept but not as much emphasis on a particular way of explaining it.

Anonymous wrote:It's the writing that makes kids frustrated and angry. They will ask you, "2+4=? Explain your answer" and then they need to write several sentences. Every kid with even a little competence in math is thinking, WTF?

OP here. Yes, that has been an issue, and my child actually does otherwise enjoy writing.
How about pace of class overall? Does the pace feel slow and repetitive to the point of madness to many kids? Or just some? Trying to understand if a normal, somewhat bright in math child should feel furious on a daily basis about being trapped in math class.

It's the writing that makes kids frustrated and angry. They will ask you, "2+4=? Explain your answer" and then they need to write several sentences. Every kid with even a little competence in math is thinking, WTF?

Anonymous wrote:DS and DD both hated "MCPS" math but are math kids and love "normal" math. They both hated writing paragraphs about solving easy problems. They really hated the bizarre worksheets that made them write why doing math in this manner was better or how doing math this way helped them.

OP- the MCPS 2.0 math curriculum is complete failure for both non-math and math centric kids. It does not build fluency and skips concepts. I'd strongly suggest having your child do math on-line or take a supplemental math class.

AGree about the waste of writing paragraphs about solving easy problems. It is so frustrating.

Our school doesn't have anything like that. My second grader learned about basic fractions and their times' tables. They're currently working on geometry, types of quadrilaterals, types of triangles, concepts like acute or obtuse. Most worksheets I've seen are reasonable, but I've thrown out one or two.

DS and DD both hated "MCPS" math but are math kids and love "normal" math. They both hated writing paragraphs about solving easy problems. They really hated the bizarre worksheets that made them write why doing math in this manner was better or how doing math this way helped them.

OP- the MCPS 2.0 math curriculum is complete failure for both non-math and math centric kids. It does not build fluency and skips concepts. I'd strongly suggest having your child do math on-line or take a supplemental math class.