Quiz
1. Should your elementary child be using a calculator when learning to solve computational problems?
2. When you talk to your second grader about being close to bedtime or making a little less noise, or being about twenty minutes late, you're reinforcing the vocabulary of what essential math skill?
3. One elementary math standard calls for students to "develop reasonable proficiency with basic facts and algorithms." What's an algorithm?
4. The teacher draws a rectangle on the chalkboard, fills in a portion of it, and asks students, "About how much is the shaded part?" What is being explored here?
5. In the early grades, building number skills is an important priority. When should students first be exposed to geometry?
6. One of our national goals is to be "first in the world in mathematics." How have U.S. fourth graders stacked up against the rest of the world?
1. Should your elementary child be using a calculator when learning to solve computational problems?
Yes.
2. When you talk to your second grader about being close to bedtime or making a little less noise, or being about twenty minutes late, you're reinforcing the vocabulary of what essential math skill?
Estimation
3. One elementary math standard calls for students to "develop reasonable proficiency with basic facts and algorithms." What's an algorithm?
A step-by-step problem-solving procedure
4. The teacher draws a rectangle on the chalkboard, fills in a portion of it, and asks students, "About how much is the shaded part?" What is being explored here?
Fractions
5. In the early grades, building number skills is an important priority. When should students first be exposed to geometry?
Elementary school
6. One of our national goals is to be "first in the world in mathematics." How have U.S. fourth graders stacked up against the rest of the world?
Up there with the best
Doesn't quite add up.
You're a fraction of the way there.
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