"It's not for cheating," Katya whispered, mimicking their teacher. "It's for verification ."
In the quiet town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a third-grader named Sasha stared at the orange-and-white cover of his . It was 2017, and the 3rd-grade curriculum was notorious for its introduction of multiplication and division tables up to 100. "It's not for cheating," Katya whispered, mimicking their
Sasha’s desk was a battlefield of crumpled papers. Problem #4 on page 56 was a multi-step monster about a collective farm’s harvest that refused to be solved. Just as he was about to give up, his older sister, Katya, slid a thin, worn book across the table: the (answer key) for the 2017 Moro edition. "It's not for cheating