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So I looked more carefully over the directions, it just says show your work and put the answer in the blank space. I looked at dd's numbers (her work) on that particular problem and this is what she did. It's a story problem that requires multiplying a 2 digit number times a 2 digit number. Dd wrote out her work which are the numbers I see in the work space area and that the teacher wrote "what is this?" next to it. What she did was solved the multiplication problem up until it came time to add to get the final answer and instead of writing the sum under her work she put the answer in the answer blank. She did the work, showed the work, she only put the actual answer in the answer blank and not in her work.

This is frustrating because this teacher is already too type A in my opinion and rigid. Other parents have complained that it is upsetting their kids but I just assumed they were just not used to structure considering the mess of a teacher they had last year where there was no structure or planning. Dd doesn't really complain because she's pretty indifferent to people.

I like this teacher in all other areas except for how she's handling math. We're going on month 4 and just now starting division. This is supposed to be an accelerated 4th grade gifted class.