Does anyone else think it's 100% ridiculous to expect 1st graders, kids aged 6-7 years old, to be able to solve all of…

It's not unreasonable. They did the same when my son was in private school and he was in kindergarten. When we moved him to home school we continued teaching him that way.

It's more of a life long lesson. How to solve problems within so many minutes and under pressure. When you get a job boss says I need this done by this time and you have a lot on your plate plus home problems. You still have to do what boss said and done when boss needs it.

And it's a good exercise for the child's brain to solve and memorize. That's how people are quick all memory from what they had learned and stored in their brains.

A lot of them are duplicate questions. So the advice i would give him is to answer one and then find the other ones that are the same. It’ll help him

@shaeslove my children are being taught cursive. They start here in the 3rd grade.

@kyleigh.e.h nope, this is a graded test that they are expected to pass each week.

Yes. They had to know how to count in 2s 4s 6s and 10s. Multiples of 10 and subtract as well.

I don't think it's unrealistic. They are "math facts" they are meant to be memorized, not solved. If memorized, they can be read and answered in the alloted time period.

I don’t think the the purpose is to do all of them but just to asses how may they can do an get right. When I was in school we had something like that called the mad minute and it was about 50 problems but it was just to practice

@shaeslove I really dont care about cursive, it's a lot harder to read messy handwriting in cursive, haha

@beemommyof3 they started timing them at 1 minute for 25 questions of this difficulty?

They don’t teach cursive anymore from what I’m told

I dont believe so. I believe they start the addition table in kindergarten. mine did anyway

1 minute? Even I couldn't do all that in 1 minute!

(I remember once in 1st grade I had a math test. The teacher marked a question as wrong. I went to her: "But....8+3 DOES equal 11, not 12...." Teachers aren't always right!)

@joanna.davis yeah that Was at the end of 1st grade. We also learned cursive in the 1st part of 2nd grade.

My sister in law would’ve look at her teacher like 🤔🖕😂😂

@stevie.savoie22 in 1st grade?? They didn't start timing us on anything until 3rd grade, and only multiplication.a

@joanna.davis, That is a little bit of time I’ve timed my daughter and she has finished in less than 3 minutes but that is after some practice.

@martcas1989 10 minutes is more than reasonable. My son has ADHD and a Processing Disorder, and according to pediatrician and psychiatrist most likely has Aspergers, but hasn't been diagnosed.

With all of the trouble he has with processing things like this, he only gets 2 minutes on the test.

I had to do this with that same amount of time. Also has 100 times tables to do in 1 min.

@joanna.davis I understand. And that definitely seems like too much pressure.

That time is messed up Id have a talk with that teacher.

@joanna.davis, that's what I was going to say the math seems fine, but the amount of time is completely ridiculous!

@believeinbuddha it's not the math I have a problem with, it's the time. Kids get stressed out and work slower when they know they are being timed anyway. And these kids aren't going to have this stuff memorized, they need time to work out the problems.

My son can answer all of these correctly, just not within 1-2 minutes for all 25 problems.

My daughter has the same exact homework but she has more time 10 mins and is doing well!

I don't think that's too advanced. They expect you to know A LOT by the time you enter school so I'm not surprised they have them starting basic math in first grade. When i was young we started around then I believe.