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For those who use or have used CSMP my son will be six next month, he would be in K in the public board but easily zipping through addition and early subtraction in MM. I'm looking to go deeper using CSMP but I'm not sure what is covered in K and whether it would be appropriate to go to grade one or start at K.

 

Any insight?

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I haven't looked at grade 1 yet, but I can certainly say you'd zip through K level pretty quickly, skipping a lot. There'd still be some worthwhile stuff in there though, i would think.

 

You could ask on the Yahoo group. No one ever talks on there, probably everyone is busy teaching their kids maths or something, but I expect you'd get an answer: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CSMPMath/info

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I don't know MM, but we use CSMP. I'd say a 6 year old K'er that was zipping through addition and early subtraction could start at CSMP 1st grade.  The K curriculum is great - and quite frankly a lot of fun and hits at concepts in a lot of different and creative ways, but if conceptually he's ready for more, just go to first. I love that the methods are developmentally where kids in K/1st are, but introduce concepts early and often. 

 

I love CSMP - I really credit it for my children not being afraid of big numbers or using basic concepts to solve unconventional problems (in 1st and 3rd grade, but I skipped them to the 2nd and 4th grade curricula this year). They are really "open" thinkers in mathematics. Yay for another CSMPer. 

 

 

 

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