DD's 2nd grade math is pretty basic and then they come up with this problem solving sheet:
Stella has 5 coins
Joan has 10 coins.
Stella has 2 times as much money as Joan
There are only 4 quarters.
What amount of money does Stella have?
What amount of money does Joan have?
What denomination of coins does each have?
I think most adults would throw up their hands on this one.
Then later on, with no multiplication tables, they do Multiplication and Division fact triangles. I am so glad I used CTY for math.
This was a beef I had with DD's math in the 1st grade gifted class... she was doing perimeter and area calculations for quadrilaterals and she hadn't even been given a chance to learn her multiplication tables. They wouldn't skip her to second because they were afraid of gaps, and this is the alternative??
