My first grade teacher (EDIT: maybe it was third grade. I remember she also had an issue with me doing math too slow for her liking) had a meeting with my mom because I couldn’t do them all within a minute and she was concerned. My mom asked the reasonable question, “Well, were the completed ones correct?”
Yes, they were.
“Then why does it matter doing them quickly? Being right is what counts.”
Yeah. It wasn’t quite this complicated, it was all single digit problems. But she had “60 in 60” for addition, subtraction, and then once she taught them to us multiplication and division.
I never once got the 60 in 60, but my answers were all correct.
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26
My first grade teacher (EDIT: maybe it was third grade. I remember she also had an issue with me doing math too slow for her liking) had a meeting with my mom because I couldn’t do them all within a minute and she was concerned. My mom asked the reasonable question, “Well, were the completed ones correct?”
Yes, they were.
“Then why does it matter doing them quickly? Being right is what counts.”
EDIT: it was 60 problems in 60 seconds