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To: metmom

I tutor Middle Schoolers, mainly English and math. I have a No Calculators desk, and they hate it. Some of the ‘really good’ students do not know their multiplication tables by the time they get to 8th grade. I have to review flash cards with them to get the back to where they should have been in 4th grade.

Tsk tsk. The multiplication facts simply need to be at their fingertips as a foundation for any further math. The math teachers have drunk the KoolAid imho. Why DO they permit this? Rely on this? Perhaps they don’t know theirs.

Call me old-fashioned. We are supposed to USE our brains, not just carry them around.


61 posted on 03/14/2013 8:23:50 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: bboop
Call me old-fashioned. We are supposed to USE our brains, not just carry them around.

I love it......

63 posted on 03/14/2013 8:44:59 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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