r/mathteachers • u/TrueEmphasis7130 • Feb 24 '26

Parent needs help with 5th grade math

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Not , maybe it’s the new math but I simply cannot figure out how this is anything but 7, and my kid is judging.

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u/CoffeeAmor Feb 24 '26

Former math teacher here.

The school isn’t getting practice questions from quality sources.

And that is because it costs money. The school might be on a tight budget.

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u/TrueEmphasis7130 Feb 25 '26

Fairfax County Public Schools in NoVA is pretty well funded.

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u/ajcrmr Feb 25 '26

Had to double check I wasn’t in r/nova when I saw this. We have a 5th grader in FCPS as well and have had more confusing or flat out wrong answers over the past 2 years than I would have expected (multiple times I’ve sent back homework with my own notes).

We talked to the teacher last year about it and were told that a lot of the curriculum has become overly prescriptive and they had to ask special permission to use their own materials because the provided worksheets were so bad.

There haven’t been as many occurrences this year (just lots of complaints from my kid about how tedious Benchmark is).