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In reply to the discussion: Why Would a Math Teacher Punish a Child for Saying 5 x 3 = 15? [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Thus, in third grade while the rest of the class was being taught rote memorization of multiplication tables, I figured out how the operations functioned on my own. By the time we got to 7th grade and the other kids were being untaught the crap they were taught in third grade in order to be capable of solving the complex polynomials, I was already moving ahead to geometric proofs on my own. I would be beaten up on most test result days because I "blew the curve" for the kids who were taught bullshit in third grade and couldn't unlearn the bullshit fast enough to keep up.
This kid was taught correctly. The quiz was about order of operations and arrays, not multiplication. The kid did not fail the quiz, but s/he did poorly and failed to provide fully correct answers on two out of three problems.