I was looking at a fifth grade teacher's web site in a local schol district. It said that four days per week, her students do 100 multiplication problems as soon as math class starts. The goal is to get them done with 100% accuarcy in less than one minute during the course of the school year.

Can you imagine??? In FIFTH grade? That would be dull in 3rd grade.

Talk about bored out of their little gourds, not to mention an ideal method for killing any curiosity about mathematics.

Oy.

Val