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		mturmon on March 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Too little is known about whether money spent on h... I have to agree. My kid's fourth grade class (Common Core, California; adopted a NY State based text) has been going over multiplication of two and three digit numbers in three different ways for over a month now. I like math, and I can see what they're trying to do (build intuition in a multi-faceted way & justifying different multiplication algorithms) but the way it is done is boring her to death. It is too much repetition, and they have squeezed the fun out of it in what seems like a desire for repeatability.

bsder on March 27, 2015 [–]

The problem here isn't Common Core, it's "mainstreaming".

The issue is that the good students will always learn quickly and be bored while the average student is learning.

The only solution would be to skip her ahead a year in math.

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