Have you ever taken a look at your child's math homework and thought, "This looks like Greek to me! What is this craziness? Why can't they just teach the way they always did? It worked for us, after all."
If so, you're not alone. I hear from parents of first graders who consider some of the 1st grade work they see coming home to be incomprehensible. It isn't that you aren't smart, it isn't that you aren't capable, it's that times have changed. The educational landscape is not what it used to be.
Whether or not our state chooses to keep or throw away the Common Core curriculum, our approach to teaching mathematics will go unchanged. We have mountains of data telling us that the old-school way of teaching wasn't working for the majority of children and that we must embrace teaching our students conceptually.
To help you, WCPSS has created some WONDERFUL documents that will take you through the basics of what you need to know about the mathematics curriculum at your child's grade level. Additionally, they have made VIDEOS to help support your learning, as well as your child's.
Let's band together and "flip" our education. We'll all be better off for it!
You can find the instructional videos HERE
The grade-level work documents can be found on the Brassfield website under Parent resources AND right HERE
Mathematically Yours,
Mrs. PF
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