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Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

That’s different. Like saying a 5yo is doing algebra because he can solve “what plus 4 equals 20”.

Also that’s not long division.

PP. I wasn't claiming that it was... I was simply pointing out that they seem to be teaching division earlier than my wife and I were taught - so I wouldn't be surprised if long division starts being taught earlier

It's not.

Anonymous wrote:My kid’s school uses Go Math, and it is a pretty big unit of 5th grade. It spirals, so the concepts were introduced in 4th, but the traditional steps and problem sets like we learned them didn’t start till 5th.

I have taught 4th grade go math. Long division was covered early in the year. Between mulplicaion and fractions.

I was going with a 3rd grade class so I learned in 2nd Grade

I learned in 2nd grade

My kid’s school uses Go Math, and it is a pretty big unit of 5th grade. It spirals, so the concepts were introduced in 4th, but the traditional steps and problem sets like we learned them didn’t start till 5th.

Anonymous wrote:4th / 5th

This is my experience as well.

4th.

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Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

wow, I would never send my child to a preschool that has them sit and do math. Yikes.

NP. Yes, Montessori schools start teaching math and reading at a young age. Our daycare in DC does the same. If your 5-6 yo isn't being exposed to math, and reading (ex. site-words etc) they are more the exception than the norm in our experience.

lol at "site-words". We did play-based preschool, like most of the educated parents I know.

I’m not a grammar/spelling nazi but that was a particularly funny error, considering the context.

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Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

wow, I would never send my child to a preschool that has them sit and do math. Yikes.

NP. Yes, Montessori schools start teaching math and reading at a young age. Our daycare in DC does the same. If your 5-6 yo isn't being exposed to math, and reading (ex. site-words etc) they are more the exception than the norm in our experience.

lol at "site-words". We did play-based preschool, like most of the educated parents I know.

I’m not a grammar/spelling nazi but that was a particularly funny error, considering the context.

My kid hasn’t started pre school yet...
But can someone speak to this “not having a text book” thing I keep hearing about.

Anonymous wrote:Fcps doesnt teach long division like we learned it. My kid was doing all this writing in the margins and didn't understand "carrying down" the next digit, etc.
I had no clue what DD was doing and, of course, there's no textbook so I have no clue how they're teaching the kids.
So annoyed.

DS learned all of those methods in 3rd and regular, traditional long division exactly the way I remember it in 4th. He’s in gen ed classes, not AAP in FCPS.

I don't think my kids learned what I consider to be "regular" long division in FCPS, but I never needed to help them with whatever odd method they used so it didn't really matter.

My DH went to a Montessori school through second or third grade and entered public school unable to do any math at all. I guess they've changed their philosophy of they're teaching redshirted pre-K kids to divide!

What other way is there to teach it besides the regular way?

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Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

wow, I would never send my child to a preschool that has them sit and do math. Yikes.

NP. Yes, Montessori schools start teaching math and reading at a young age. Our daycare in DC does the same. If your 5-6 yo isn't being exposed to math, and reading (ex. site-words etc) they are more the exception than the norm in our experience.

lol at "site-words". We did play-based preschool, like most of the educated parents I know.

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Anonymous wrote:the Montessori School my 5.5yo (pre-K) goes to has DS doing division with remainders (i.e. 21/6) already. we were amazed since DW and I don't recall being introduced to division anywhere near that young... it's nuts

That’s different. Like saying a 5yo is doing algebra because he can solve “what plus 4 equals 20”.

Also that’s not long division.

PP. I wasn't claiming that it was... I was simply pointing out that they seem to be teaching division earlier than my wife and I were taught - so I wouldn't be surprised if long division starts being taught earlier