I’m rereading this. You need to teach her the trick of 9’s. She should have easily gotten that 8x9 starts with a 7 and then must be followed by a 2 (7+2=9).
Y’all here is too advanced for me. I struggle just counting my tenant’s rent money. If they have mixed denominations, I have to separate into different piles and then use my phone calculator. Shame, shame, shame!
That must means you are reeling it in! Too much to count!
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@manch how old are you kids ?
My daughter had issue is memorizing math tables but eventually they all get it . Key is to keep helping them to move forward . My younger one is I think way ahead of his age group because he was able to learn from his sister
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Seems like colleges may be revising their expectations too. Places like MIT are recruiting kids who play sports and rejecting the super bright kids (even the sociable ones who work well on a team projects!). This is the downfall of the US supremacy in Tech, but doesn’t seem limited to CA.
I’ve also heard professors complain about how their students no longer have a good foundation in math and the colleges want them to dumb down their courses to accommodate.
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USA is forgoing its tech (aka future) for the sake of diversity (you know what it means). May be limited to Democratic controlled States.
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Where are the “conservative” leaning billionaires? Why don’t they take over some universities and run it like more the way they want.
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my friend’s wife got into MS in CS at UT Austin last yr without GRE and a very avg profile
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Does she live in Texas?
Yes Houston
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A long article I saw on Russian School of Math’s website.
RSM has 21 branches in California. 15 of them are in the Bay Area, 6 in all of SoCal.
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we are looking into this. I have been hesitant as this sort of “kills” interest in math if you aren’t naturally inclined to it…the russian teachers aren’t the kindest.
My impression is that RSM is more like an extension of Common Core. Focusing on creative problem solving instead of rote memorization. I just signed both of my kids up. May have some first hand experience to share later on.
Bay Area has tons of after school math programs, especially in the South Bay.
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Our 2nd graders are now two years into RSM. We love the program and kids progress.
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Vedic Maths (traditional Indian maths) has a lot of tricks to help with quick calculations that also help develop an alternate way of looking at numbers and their interactions.
I agree about the comment on Abacus being finger trick but then I don’t know how to do them!
I have not explored Russian Math at all. So that worksheet pic was very helpful.
You all seem to be 
parents pushing kids to after school maths 
in elementary school. Or I am a bad parent since I don’t even know what my 4th grader is exactly learning in school this year, let alone after school maths. 
Only effort I spend on after school activities is on sports or music. Also, WA school districts have highly capable programs so he’s supposedly doing 6th grade math in 4th grade so hopefully whatever he’s learning is keeping him engaged and challenged.
Btw, I have seen him do happynumbers, iready and other online subscriptions his school provides. I am assuming that’s a thing in Bay Area as well and all this after school RSM is on top of these online Maths subscriptions?
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My biggest worry, and therefore my biggest motivation for signing up my kids for RSM, is that the regular math classes are killing my kids’ natural curiosity for math. Math, taught in the right way, should be exploratory and fun.
I heard many kids in South Bay’s top tier high schools take Multivariable Calculus in community colleges. I was shocked when I heard that. Did not know college admission has gone so cut-throat already.
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Which grades are you girls in now? I am assuming middle school?
Don’t assume that this will get them into college. Many of the colleges are looking for “diversity” which your girls unfortunately probably won’t be 
Make sure they have a varsity sport as well.