Basic Multiplication Tables Not Taught in MCPS

The following question and answer is from the just released MCPS K-12 Mathematics Work Group Report. Nothing new about this response, MCPS parents have been told for over a decade to teach multiplication tables at home because schools weren't going to spend time on them. 

Question: Do you feel that your child is prepared with the mathematical knowledge he or she needs for his/her next steps? Next course? Why or why not? Explain.

• No. I was told a couple of years ago that MCPS math teachers cannot spend time teaching multiplication tables in class. I was told by my daughter's teacher that we needed to work on them independently at home. How can an entire county decide not to help kids with something as basic as multiplication? That affects everything from learning fractions and long division to mode/median and other higher-level concepts. (Bradley Hills ES PTA)