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Thanks. And yes, kimck, you should teach math!

I don't think I shared this when it happened, but right before Christmas, DD9 came home with a math question counted wrong that she knew was right. I usually don't look at her papers that much because she's such a good student, but DD insisted that I look at it. The question asked her to write 5x6 as a repeated addition problem, so DD wrote "5+5+5+5+5+5=30". The teacher counted it wrong, saying she should have written "6+6+6+6+6=30". I was really mad because DD has understood multiplication for years and knows it can be written either way. I emailed the teacher who said she was going to check on which way it needed to be written for standardized tests. This angered me even more! I insisted that it would not matter which way she did it, and that on a mc standardized test, both forms would not be choices in the same problem. I never heard back from this teacher on this. Very frustrating!